Mystery rocket' that crashed into the Moon baffles NASA scientists

CHRON.COM ^ | 6/30/2022 | Ariana Garcia ,

[bitt]

So far, no space exploring nations have claimed responsibility for the rocket.

NASA has discovered the crash site of a "mystery rocket body" that collided with the Moon's surface earlier this year. The impact left behind a widespread "double crater," meaning it wasn't the average rocket.

However, since its crash landing, none of Earth's space-exploring nations have claimed responsibility for the mysterious projectile, leaving NASA scientists baffled as to who was behind its launch. New images shared on June 24 by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter show the unusual impact site.

After a rocket body impacted the Moon last year, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter was able to snap a surprising view of the impact site. Unexpectedly, the crater is actually two craters and may indicate that the rocket body had large masses at each end: https://t.co/WtMAFrNkUw pic.twitter.com/hcoYPxlm8z — NASA 360 (@NASA360) June 27, 2022

[bitt]

LINK TO NASA:

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/nasas-lunar-reconnaissance-orbiter-spots-rocket-impact-site-on-moon

[Ikeon]

Fireworks. Probably legal in Texas.

[Dog]

Aliens just saying

[bitt]

MORE CRAZY SPACE STUFF..

https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2676455570562/nasa-s-perseverance-rover-found-a-mysterious-bundle-of-string-on-mars

[marktwain]

Obviously a crashed UFO.

No one has identified it yet.../S

[bitt]

https://gizadeathstar.com/2022/07/mystery-moon-rocket/

(love me some space conspiracies...)

[loucon]

It finally hit on March 4 near the Hertzsprung crater, a "complex" impact crater on the far side of the Moon.

Since it hit on the far side of the moon, doesn't that mean it was heading the other way?

[Magnum44]

[EEGator]

Decepticons.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Since it hit on the far side of the moon, doesn't that mean it was heading the other way?

Not if it was in a decaying orbit...which is more likely that not.

[Born in 1950]

My thermostat setting is known but they lose jet liners and don’t know about rockets leaving Earth.

[TalonDJ]

“Since it hit on the far side of the moon, doesn’t that mean it was heading the other way?”

No.

Orbital mechanics are weird.

[mfish13]

It’s Marvin the Martian.

[shotgun]

It was from when Tommy Lee Jones flew the Soviet nuke satellite to the moon

[Seruzawa]

But the moon has no atmosphere enough to cause orbital decay. So it has to be aliens!!!!

[loucon]

Then that suggests it was in orbit around the moon and not the earth, or in an orbit around the earth at a greater distance than the moon or it flew across our solar system and made impact on the other side of our orbit around the sun.

I think it’s aliens. ;)

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Umm...gravity?

More than likely, whatever it was, was shot down by the aliens who inhabit the DSOM.

[PIF]

A) How do they know it was a rocket and not “something else”?
B) Why did it make 2 craters when it hit?

[Seruzawa]

Obviously it was a failed launch from the secret Nazi moonbase.