Posted on 07/25/2022 10:03:40 AM PDT by bitt
There it is!
There are way more craters on the far side of the moon and how in the heck do you see a new crater that’s tiny by comparison? What kind of surveillance satellites do we have monitoring the fat side of the moon? We have the LRO but sheesh.
Putin’s fault.
Dick Tracy’s space coupe.
Monkeypox.
That’s right. Moonbase 1. Where all those hot babes in silver miniskirts and purple hair live.
Must not have been North Korea. We always know when they launch a rocket.
It’s the Chinese Communist Party they drop rocket everywhere and on everyone
Obviously, SPECTRE — while James Bond is undergoing a sex change — thought it was a good time to make a move.
From the article:
“At least 47 NASA rocket bodies have created “spacecraft impacts” on the moon, according to 2016 data from Arizona State University. Four large moon craters attributed to Apollo 13, 14, 15 and 17 missions are substantially larger than each of the overlapping craters created by the March 4 impact,“
Also from the article:
“Astronomers anticipated the crash after spotting the unidentified rocket on a collision course with the Moon late last year. It finally hit on March 4 near the Hertzsprung crater, a “complex” impact crater on the far side of the Moon. “
I must wonder if the Republic of Kekistan is responsible.
Not necessarily. It could have been captured in a decaying lunar orbit.
Looking close at that picture, it seems like there is a huge chunk of whatever crashed laying across that 2-crater complex. It seems to be somewhat trapezoidal in shape, rounded at the small end. I would LOVE to see a real close-up of those two craters.
(M1*M2)/d^2
wonder if it had tesla badges...
Nice to know these scientists care so little about messing with the only natural satellite our planet has.
“Fireworks. Probably legal in Texas.”
Hilarious -
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Joking aside, if this is really a rocket body impact, there is literally no way we didn’t fully record the launch, the trajectory, and travel.
As well, if the crash site were fully on the moons far side (backside), the crash site area would need a lunar orbiter from a mission of our own around the far side of the moon to image it.
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“...Western media coverage tends to ignore or deliberately downplay China’s space achievements, to include the Chang’e 4’s attempt, China has yet again proven that it is dead serious about its deadlines set for its ambitions in space. The ambition to land on the far side of the moon was articulated by China’s space agencies years ago, and 2018 was set as the year when they would launch. And here we are, in 2018, with another Chinese space mission goal achieved as per the deadline set. This meeting of deadlines set has been the trajectory of China’s unmanned (1999) and manned space missions (2003), its space stations, the Tiangong 1 (2011) and Tiangong 2 (2016), as well as the indigenously built cargo spacecraft, the Tianzhou 1 (2016), which docked with the Tiangong 2.”
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There is a whole lot more, but much of it is actually classified.
They have been “marking” off portions of the moon for a while. China also believed they could avoid much of our surveillance and possible targeting by setting up shop on the far side of the moon. They are partially correct, but only for a “window” in time.
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