In the first known event of its kind, a new crater has been carved into the lunar surface by a piece of space junk
. But it appears China’s response may have been the result of a miscommunication, referring instead to the subsequent Chang’e 5 mission and not Chang’e 5-T1.had completely deorbited
McDowell says all the signs point to Chang’e 5-T1, and he’s reasonably sure that’s where the errant rocket came from—but he’s still not 100 percent confident.Only if better orbital tracking data is found that allows astronomers to more reliably rewind the object’s path through space. The rocket itself was completely destroyed when it hit the moon. It hurtled toward our nearest neighbor at roughly 5,000 miles an hour, and unlike Earth, the moon doesn’t have an atmosphere to slow it down as it approaches.
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