Subject: Re: ?A 9,000-pound SpaceX rocket will crash into th e moon tonight. Will you be able to see it??
On Aug 5, 2026, Lynn McGuire wrote
(in article <114uigp$2nksj$
1@dont-email.me>):
?A 9,000-pound SpaceX rocket will crash into the moon tonight. Will you
be able to see it??
https://www.space.com/astronomy/moon/a-9-000-pound-spacex-rocket-will-crash-in
to-the-moon-tonight-will-you-be-able-to-see-it
?The 45-foot-long (13.8-meter), 8,000-pound (4,000-kilogram) rocket
stage, left over from the January 2025 launch of Firefly Aerospace's
Blue Ghost and ispace's Hakuto-R lunar missions, is expected to strike
the moon at about 2:35 a.m. EDT (0635 UTC) on Aug. 5. Traveling at
roughly 5,400 mph (8,700 km/h), the impact will occur near the moon's
western limb, close to Einstein Crater on the moon's Earth-facing side.?
Heads up, incoming.
Lynn
not a big deal. 8700 km/h is about 2.4 km/s. Four tonnes at 2.4 km/s would release energy about equivalent to 2.75 or so tonnes of TNT. The Moon gets similar impacts on an almost daily basis. The Earth would, too, except that objects of that size and mass would tend to burn up in the atmosphere before impact.
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