A SPACEX ROCKET IS READY TO COLLIDE WITH THE MOON, SEVEN YEARS AFTER IT WAS LAUNCHED.

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In a nutshell, scientists predict that one of Elon Musk's SpaceX rockets sent into space over seven years ago will crash into the moon at the beginning of March. Although this may not appear to be a good thing, the impact could provide vital scientific information.

SpaceX launched its first interplanetary mission from Florida in February 2015, transporting a weather satellite more than one million miles from Earth. The Falcon 9 rocket did not have enough fuel to reenter to Earth's atmosphere and burn up after its extended burn to achieve a transfer orbit. On Ars Technica, meteorologist Eric Berger said that it "lacked the energy to escape the gravity of the Earth-Moon system," leaving it in a "chaotic orbit."

According to space experts, the Falcon 9's second stage, which weighs about four tonnes, will collide with the moon in a few weeks at a speed of about 2.58 km/s (5,700 mph). The far side of the moon, near the equator, will be impacted on March 4, according to Bill Gray, who maintains the Project Pluto programme to track near-Earth objects.

"Space debris can be troublesome," Gray explained. "I have a fairly thorough mathematical model of what the earth, moon, sun, and planets are doing and how their gravity affects the object," says the researcher. I have a basic concept of how much sunshine is shining on the thing and softly pushing it away from it. This allows me to make forecasts with a high degree of certainty."

The majority of the moon will be in the way for amateur astronomers expecting to view the crash from Earth, according to Gray, "and even if it were on the near side, the impact occurs a couple of days after New Moon."

Satellites circling the moon, like as NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and India's Chandrayaan-2 mission, are expected to be able to collect vital data from the impact crater and revealed debris. In 2009, NASA hit the moon with a spent rocket stage for the same reason, but this is thought to be the first time a piece of space trash reached the moon accidently.

In keeping with inadvertent (near) hits, China filed a UN complaint last month alleging that two SpaceX Starlink satellites nearly collided with its space station in the previous year.

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