A big piece of space junk is about to slam into the far side of the moon Friday. It may take weeks, even months, to confirm the impact through satellite images.
Gray said it was likely the third stage of a Chinese rocket that sent a test sample capsule to the moon and back in 2014. But Chinese ministry officials said the upper stage had reentered Earth’s atmosphere and burned up.
“I’ve become a little bit more cautious of such matters,” he said. “But I really just don’t see any way it could be anything else.” “I had been hoping for something to hit the moon for a long time. Ideally, it would have hit on the near side of the moon at some point where we could actually see it,” Gray said.
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