Canaveral (USA): Three tons of space debris is about to hit the Moon at a speed of 5,800 mph. This collision will be so severe that it will create a crater large enough to accommodate many vehicles like tractor-trailers. The debris is the remnants of a rocket that will hit a distant part of the Moon on Friday at 5,800 mph (9,300 kph) that can’t be seen by binoculars.
Confirming the impact of the collision with the help of satellite images may take several weeks or several months. Experts have said that this rocket belongs to China, which was sent into space about a decade ago and since then it has been moving here and there. However, Chinese officials have expressed doubts about the rocket being of Beijing.
Although it does not matter which country this rocket belongs to, scientists believe that its fierce collision will create a crater of 33 to 66 feet (10 to 20 meters) on the lunar surface and dust of the lunar surface for hundreds of kilometers. Will spread Trash floating in low orbit in space is easier to keep track of, and objects sent into distant space are less likely to collide with anything else and are often quickly obliterated.
However, some space observers who enjoy celestial events do keep an eye on them. One such observer, Bill Gray, predicted a collision of this rocket waste with the Moon in January. Gray is a mathematician and a physicist. Gray initially suspected the rocket to be of SpaceX, after which the company faced criticism, but a month later, Gray corrected his suspicion, saying that it was not a SpaceX company’s rocket sent in 2015.
He said that it is possible that it is the Chinese rocket that sent a test sample capsule to the moon in 2014. The capsule had returned but the rocket continued to wander in space. Chinese government officials said Beijing’s rocket had burned up when it returned to Earth’s atmosphere. However, there were two Chinese missions with the same name, one was this test flight and the other was the mission to bring samples of stones from the lunar surface in 2020.
US observers have a different opinion than China. The US Space Command, which monitors near-Earth space waste, said on Tuesday that the Chinese rocket associated with the 2014 mission never returned to Earth’s atmosphere.
