A Chinese rocket is heading to collide with the moon within two weeks after being `important` in space for years

Arab Weather - The media reported in late January 2022 that a stray SpaceX Falcon 9 missile will hit the moon on March 4, and yes, that's right. The rocket will hit the moon on the fourth of March, but experts found that the rocket is not a "Falcon 9", but a Chinese rocket launched in 2014, and it is heading to collide with the moon, after it has been orbiting randomly in space, for years, due to loss of control. on him.

It is expected that the debris of the rocket will hit the surface of the moon at a speed of (9300 km / h). The impacts will be minimal, except for a small new crater that will form on the moon's surface, and the new crater will be about 20 meters (100 feet) wide.

The remnant of the missile is from China's Chang'e 5-T1 mission launched in October 2014 on a Long March 3C rocket. This lunar mission sent a small spacecraft to the Moon as a preliminary test for the return mission.

This expected collision will be the first time that space junk collides with the surface of the moon, but we will not be able to monitor this accident from planet Earth.

And the US space agency, "NASA", said in late January that it would try to monitor the crater that will form as a result of this object's impact on the moon's surface, thanks to its probe orbiting the moon, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, and the agency described the event as an "exciting research opportunity."

It is worth noting that there are many countries that follow objects in low Earth orbit, due to the presence of many pieces of debris that pose a risk of collision with military and scientific satellites. The surface of the moon.