Agency, Washington.
Published by: Yogesh Sahu
Updated Thu, 03 Mar 2022 07:29 AM IST
Summary
It is comparatively easy to keep an eye on the waste floating in space near the Earth. Objects sent into deep space are also less likely to collide with other objects and are often quickly forgotten. But this rocket is in that direction of the moon which is not visible from Earth.
The debris of a broken Chinese rocket weighing 3 tonnes is about to hit the lunar surface with a speed of 9,300 kmph. During this time there can be such a big crater on the moon, in which many vehicles as big as tractors can be accommodated. This surface of the Moon is present at such a place where even Earth’s telescopes cannot see it. Even the confirmation of satellite images can take weeks or months.
Experts believe that this Chinese rocket was launched in space about a decade ago and since then it has been wandering here and there in space. However, Chinese officials have expressed doubts about this rocket being of China. But scientists believe that this collision will cause a crater of 10 to 20 meters on the surface of the moon and the dust of the moon will fly away and spread on the surface for hundreds of kilometers.
It is comparatively easy to keep an eye on the waste floating in space near the Earth. Objects sent into deep space are also less likely to collide with other objects and are often quickly forgotten. But this rocket is in that direction of the moon which is not visible from Earth. China has succeeded in launching a satellite on this surface three years ago.
Bill Gray discovered this garbage
Only a handful of space observers, playing amateur astronomical detectives, keep an eye on such rubbish. One such observer, Bill Gray, traced the path of the rocket to the moon in January. Gray is a mathematician and a physicist. He initially blamed SpaceX for this, but Gray later told a month later that he now knew that the mysterious thing was something else.
China said – that rocket is burntBill Gray said, it is possible that it is the third stage of a Chinese rocket that sent a test capsule to the moon in 2014. The capsule returned but the rocket continued to wander after that. However, Chinese officials said that the rocket burned up after returning to Earth’s atmosphere.
But there were two Chinese missions with similar names, one was this test flight and the other was the 2020 mission to bring samples of stones from the lunar surface. In this regard, the US command, which monitors the space waste near the Earth, said on Wednesday that the Chinese rocket of the 2014 mission never returned to the Earth’s atmosphere.
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The debris of a broken Chinese rocket weighing 3 tonnes is about to hit the lunar surface with a speed of 9,300 kmph. During this time there can be such a big crater on the moon, in which many vehicles as big as tractors can be accommodated. This surface of the Moon is present at such a place where even Earth’s telescopes cannot see it. Even the confirmation of satellite images can take weeks or months.
Experts believe that this Chinese rocket was launched in space about a decade ago and since then it has been wandering here and there in space. However, Chinese officials have expressed doubts about this rocket being of China. But scientists believe that this collision will cause a crater of 10 to 20 meters on the surface of the moon and the dust of the moon will fly away and spread on the surface for hundreds of kilometers.
It is comparatively easy to keep an eye on the waste floating in space near the Earth. Objects sent into deep space are also less likely to collide with other objects and are often quickly forgotten. But this rocket is in that direction of the moon which is not visible from Earth. China has succeeded in launching a satellite on this surface three years ago.