After sending a space meteorological satellite 7 years ago, she drifted away as a lost child.
There is no adverse effect on the earth, and it seems difficult to witness a crash show
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(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Jae-eun Jang = An abandoned rocket launched seven years ago by US private aerospace company SpaceX falls to the moon a few weeks later.
According to the daily newspaper The Guardian on the 25th (local time), experts calculated that SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, which was orbiting in space, would collide with the moon on March 4 this year.
This rocket was launched from Florida, USA in February 2015 and carried out a mission to send a satellite (DSCOVR) to observe the weather in space to the Lagrange point (the point where the gravity of the Earth and the moon cancels out).
After completing the mission, the rocket ran out of fuel to return to Earth or escape the gravity of the Earth and the moon, so it was recklessly orbiting in an unstable orbit.
The exact time of the impact and the specific drop point have not yet been analyzed.
Bill Gray, an expert in observing objects approaching Earth, such as comets and asteroids, predicted that the top of Falcon 9 would hit the lunar equator edge on March 4.
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The moon rotates and rotates at the same period, so only one side is visible from the Earth.
“As far as I know, this is the first time space junk has unintentionally collided with the moon,” Gray explained.
The impact of the rocket and the moon on the Earth is not expected.
Astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell from Harvard University said, “It’s true that they collide, but it’s actually nothing.”
A scene where space junk collides with the moon is not expected to be easy to witness from Earth.
Gray explained that it is important to consider that the moon is much larger than a rocket.
But space enthusiasts do mean they can get valuable data from this crash.
Meteorologist Eric Berger expects to be able to observe matter emanating from the lunar subsurface due to a rocket impact.
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