The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite, with an average distance of about 384,000 square kilometers, which is an incredible distance, but now an abandoned rocket is rushing towards the moon, and it is expected to crash into the far side of the moon at a speed of 2.58 kilometers per second on March 4.
The abandoned rocket weighed 4 tons, and would then knock out a large crater with a diameter of 19 meters in the upper right corner of the far side of the moon, and the garbage on the lunar surface increased by 4 tons, bearing in mind that since the last century, the garbage on the lunar surface itself has reached hundreds of tons.
There is no doubt that this abandoned rocket comes from the launch of human beings on the earth, and we carefully comb through it, nothing more than from the following space powers, China, the United States, Japan, Europe, Russia, India, so who is this rocket?
Is it the wreckage of the Falcon 9 rocket?
According to American astronomer Bill Gray, the abandoned rocket is the second stage of SpaceX's old Falcon 9 rocket, which successfully launched the U.S. Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Deep Space Climate Observation Satellite (DSCOVR) 7 years ago.
DSCOVR satellites are mainly used to monitor solar storms and geomagnetic storms, increasing the ability to report space weather, as the number of orbiting satellites increases, monitoring solar storms is very necessary, because geomagnetic storms will produce a large number of high-speed charged granules, affecting orbiting satellites, which have occurred before.
In February 2022, due to the neglect of the solar storm, the spaceX satellites that are being launched have been greatly affected, failing to reach the intended orbit, and nearly 40 starlink satellites have been destroyed in the Earth's atmosphere at the same time, and some people have also taken pictures of the starlink satellites burning in the atmosphere, which shows the importance of monitoring solar storms.
Seven years ago, the Falcon 9 rocket sent the DSCOVR to the L1 Lagrange point about 1.5 million kilometers away from Earth, and in order to gain great thrust, the Falcon 9 rocket burned for a long time, and the second-order remnants of the Falcon 9 rocket (2015-007B) were either thrown into an unstable orbit and captured by the gravitational pull of the moon after 7 years of wandering.
But within a few days, Bill Gray changed his mind, saying that he had made a low-level mistake, and that the abandoned rocket should not be the Falcon 9, but a Chinese Long March rocket.
Is it a Chinese Long March rocket?
On Feb. 12, Bill Gray announced that the abandoned rocket about to crash on the lunar surface was the wreckage of a Chinese rocket and that there was ample evidence that the designation number 2014-065B was part of the Long March 3 C rocket, which was launched on October 24, 2014.
The mission of this rocket is the Chang'e 5-T1 mission, the Chang'e 5-T1 mission is the test model of the Chang'e 5 mission, its successful launch and normal return are directly related to the progress of the Chang'e 5 lunar sampling mission, launched on October 24, 2014, entered the Earth orbit on October 28, and successfully landed in the predetermined area of the Siziwangqi in Inner Mongolia on November 1.
But on February 21, 2022, mainland officials issued a positive reply, saying that the abandoned rocket was not the Chang'e 5-T1 mission rocket (2014-065B), because the wreckage of the Chang'e 5-T1 rocket was determined to re-enter the atmosphere in October 2015 and had been burned to the point where nothing was left.
It's really too late to confirm
This abandoned rocket is not like the second-order wreckage of the Falcon 9 rocket (2015-007B) or the wreckage of the Chang'e 5-T1 rocket (2014-065B), which is strange, so who is it? At present, it is really too late to confirm.
Because now, the abandoned rocket is about to fall on the far side of the moon, even if the lunar reconnaissance orbiter rotating around the moon wants to figure it out, it will not have time, because it will soon leave the field of view of the lunar reconnaissance orbiter and come to the far side of the moon, and it is really impossible to confirm it.
However, on the far side of the moon, there are two robots belonging to humans that continue to carry out missions, one is the famous Chang'e 4 and the other is the Yutu 2 lunar rover, I don't know if they can be lucky to capture the image of the abandoned rocket falling on the surface of the moon, so as to identify it, of course, this probability is extremely small.
At last
Who the hell is the abandoned rocket? It is really too late to confirm, if its landing point is relatively close to the distance of Yutu 2, and it is in the direction of progress, Yutu 2 can also drive over to take a look, take a look, look for some clues, to determine the true identity of the abandoned rocket, of course, this is a fantasy. Interesting and informative scientific content, please pay attention to the only WeChat public account: Interesting Exploration