Astronomers predict SpaceX space junk will hit the Moon
Washington (AFP) - A chunk of a SpaceX rocket that blasted off seven years ago and was abandoned in space after completing its mission will crash into the Moon in March, experts say. The rocket was employed in 2015 to put in orbit a NASA satellite called the Deep Space Climate Observatory. Since then the second stage of the rocket, or booster, has been floating in what mathematicians call a chaotic orbit, astronomer Bill Gray told AFP Wednesday. It was Gray who calculated the space junk's new collision course with the Moon. The booster passed by pretty close to the Moon in January in a rendezv......
Jan 27, 2022