{"id":7911,"date":"2022-01-30T21:31:07","date_gmt":"2022-01-30T21:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/01\/30\/spacex-will-be-the-first-company-to-reach-the-moon-by-accident-review-geek\/"},"modified":"2022-01-30T21:31:07","modified_gmt":"2022-01-30T21:31:07","slug":"spacex-will-be-the-first-company-to-reach-the-moon-by-accident-review-geek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/01\/30\/spacex-will-be-the-first-company-to-reach-the-moon-by-accident-review-geek\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Will Be The First Company To Reach The Moon (By Accident) \u2013 Review Geek"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A Falcon 9 rocket leaving Cape Canaveral in 2017. Nadezda Murmakova\/Shutterstock.com<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

You\u2019ve heard about space junk, but it\u2019s time to get familiar with moon junk. No, moon junk isn\u2019t some weird rash; it\u2019s the crap that humans will carelessly dump on Earth\u2019s only lunar body in the coming decades. And who\u2019s better to kick off the moon junk era than SpaceX?<\/p>\n

Bill Gray, an independent researcher in orbital dynamics, recently started tracking a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that\u2019s orbiting the moon. The rocket\u2019s been floating around aimlessly since 2015, when it blasted out of Earth\u2019s atmosphere to help test a space weather satellite.<\/p>\n

But something strange happened when Bill Gray asked his computer to predict the rocket\u2019s future orbit. The computer simply refused to predict any information after March 4th, 2022.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s because the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is on a collision course<\/a> with the moon.<\/p>\n

Bill Gray\u2019s data is now backed up by other researchers, who say that the Falcon 9 rocket will crash into our moon sometime this March. The rocket weighs four metric tons and will hit the moon at a velocity of about 5,770 mph, leaving behind a new crater and a bunch of litter.<\/p>\n

The moon itself will be fine. If the scientific community decided not to tell us about this crash, we\u2019d literally never know the difference. But this big goof from SpaceX raises questions about our future impact on outer space and highlights the growing space junk problem that humans are creating.<\/p>\n

According to NASA, the crap that\u2019s floating around our planet is dangerous for both satellites and manned spacecraft<\/a>, such as the ISS or crewed shuttles. Even the tiniest particles, like pieces of chipped paint, can damage spacecraft as it slings at\u00a017,500 mph around the Earth.<\/p>\n

While scientists and independent companies hope to remove space junk in the future, such efforts may never extend to the moon. Rockets like the Falcon 9 are\u00a0supposed<\/em> to fall back to Earth and burn up in our atmosphere when they\u2019re out of juice, but it\u2019s easy to imagine how the moon might become our Plan B dumping ground for future rockets.<\/p>\n

The fact that this information came from an independent researcher\u2019s blog<\/a>, as opposed to a government space center,\u00a0is also alarming. In a statement to the\u00a0Washington Post<\/em><\/a>, Bill Gray says \u201cwhen it comes to tracking stuff going around the moon, I have not heard of anyone else paying attention to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Source: Bill Gray<\/a> via Washington Post<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n