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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stage will crash into the moon at 0235 EDT
tonight. If the weather is clear, and you're awake at that hour, and
you have a good telescope, you may be able to see it. If not, don't
worry, plenty of others will be watching, and if there's anything to
see, it will soon show up on YouTube and elsehwere.
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On 8/4/26 1:47 PM, Keith F. Lynch wrote:

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stage will crash into the moon at 0235 EDT
tonight. If the weather is clear, and you're awake at that hour, and
you have a good telescope, you may be able to see it. If not, don't
worry, plenty of others will be watching, and if there's anything to
see, it will soon show up on YouTube and elsehwere.

From the reports I've seen so far, the impact wasn't discernible even
with good instruments. They'll need to study the photos to find any sign
of the crash.
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Gary McGath <garym@mcgath.com> wrote:

Keith F. Lynch wrote:

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stage will crash into the moon at 0235 EDT
tonight. If the weather is clear, and you're awake at that hour,
and you have a good telescope, you may be able to see it. If not,
don't worry, plenty of others will be watching, and if there's
anything to see, it will soon show up on YouTube and elsehwere.

From the reports I've seen so far, the impact wasn't discernible
even with good instruments. They'll need to study the photos to
find any sign of the crash.

Here's an explanation: https://babylonbee.com/news/spacex-crashes-rocket-into-hollywood-soundstage
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On 8/5/2026 5:42 AM, Gary McGath wrote:

On 8/4/26 1:47 PM, Keith F. Lynch wrote:

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stage will crash into the moon at 0235 EDT
tonight.-a If the weather is clear, and you're awake at that hour, and
you have a good telescope, you may be able to see it.-a If not, don't
worry, plenty of others will be watching, and if there's anything to
see, it will soon show up on YouTube and elsehwere.

From the reports I've seen so far, the impact wasn't discernible even
with good instruments. They'll need to study the photos to find any sign
of the crash.

rCLSpaceX rocket's impact crater on the moon spied by Korean lunar orbiter (photos)rCY

https://www.space.com/astronomy/moon/spacex-rockets-impact-crater-on-the-moon-spied-by-korean-lunar-orbiter-photos

""Danuri secured both pre-collision and immediate post-collision
footage, enabling analysis of changes caused solely by the collision and providing important research data.""

Yeah, lots of stuff has hit the Moon over the millennia. Including a
couple of other spaceships.

Lynn

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Gary McGath <garym@mcgath.com> wrote:

On 8/4/26 1:47 PM, Keith F. Lynch wrote:

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stage will crash into the moon at 0235 EDT
tonight. If the weather is clear, and you're awake at that hour, and
you have a good telescope, you may be able to see it. If not, don't
worry, plenty of others will be watching, and if there's anything to
see, it will soon show up on YouTube and elsehwere.

From the reports I've seen so far, the impact wasn't discernible even
with good instruments. They'll need to study the photos to find any sign
of the crash.

A Spanish observatory has posted a preliminary video of what is likely
the impact - the impact itself isn't visible but the ejecta from the
impact is [1].

Google suggests that The Instituto de Astrof|!sica de Andaluc|!a has
access to two facilities with a total of 5 largeish telescopes in the
0.9-3.5 meter optical size range. It could be taken with one of these
or something smaller, we just don't know.

There's enough zoom that it's clearly not handheld telescope but also
enough noise that I doubt they used one of the large ones for this.

I expect they'll post better videos and MUCH better photos later once
they've finished processing everything. And we may well see others
publish additional videos.

Note that impacts comparable to this happens roughly every 6 days! on
the moon, It's just that those are meteroids... [2]

As impacts goes it's bigger than the Long March 3 upper stage impact
(China, 2022) - this was initially misidentified as a Falcon 9 upper
stage when the moon impacting orbit was detected but was shown to be a
LM3 upper stage long before the impact.

But it's much smaller than say the Apollo 13 Saturn V upper stage
impact (1970). I suspect several other S-IVB also impacted the moon,
A13 is just the one with extensive seismograph data.

1. https://x.com/jmmadiedo/status/2085344665562165293
2. https://www.space.com/astronomy/moon/rocket-peppered-moon-a-brief-history-of-impacts-from-luna-2-to-spacexs-upper-stage
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On 8/4/26 13:47, Keith F. Lynch wrote:

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stage will crash into the moon at 0235 EDT
tonight. If the weather is clear, and you're awake at that hour, and
you have a good telescope, you may be able to see it. If not, don't
worry, plenty of others will be watching, and if there's anything to
see, it will soon show up on YouTube and elsehwere.

I have to say that given the newsgroup, I just keep reading the Subject:
line as "Hugo rocket crash tonight". :-)
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6 different women between them shouldn't be lecturing us about
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Torbjorn Lindgren <tl@none.invalid> wrote:

Note that impacts comparable to this happens roughly every 6 days! on
the moon, It's just that those are meteroids...

The difference is that we knew exactly when and where that rocket
stage would hit, so lots of telescopes and cameras were watching.

It's like the difference between the first plane crash into the WTC
and the second one. Lots more cameras were watching to see the second
one. Remarkably, it later turned out that two people just happened to
making videos that saw the first one. But nobody made a clear video
of the impact into the Pentagon. And only one person filmed the JFK assassination, and a street sign blocked the key frames.

I've heard it claimed that these days more photos are taken every
second than were taken in the whole of the 19th century.

We're rapidly approaching a total surveillance society. When it comes
to astronomy, that's a *good* thing. When no impact on the moon or
any other planet is missed. When we have a complete inventory of
asteroids. When we are listening for faint extraterrestrial radio
signals on all frequencies in all directions at all times.
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On Fri, 7 Aug 2026 12:32:50 -0000 (UTC), Keith F. Lynch wrote:

I've heard it claimed that these days more photos are taken every
second than were taken in the whole of the 19th century.

We're rapidly approaching a total surveillance society.

But itrCOs not rCLBig BrotherrCY watching you, but lots of rCLLittle BrothersrCY
-- that is, us -- watching each other.

And ourselves. And posting every other trivial second of it on Tiktok.
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On Fri, 7 Aug 2026 08:24:19 -0400, Evelyn C. Leeper wrote:

I have to say that given the newsgroup, I just keep reading the
Subject: line as "Hugo rocket crash tonight". :-)

rCLHugo! GernrCOs back!rCY

rCLThatrCOs nice. Back from where?rCY
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Lawrence D\377Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

Keith F. Lynch wrote:

I've heard it claimed that these days more photos are taken every
second than were taken in the whole of the 19th century.

We're rapidly approaching a total surveillance society.

But it\342\200\231s not \342\200\234Big Brother\342\200\235 watching
you, but lots of \342\200\234Little Brothers\342\200\235 -- that is,
us -- watching each other.

Total surveillence is most often associated with Orwell, as you imply.

But I think he's been upstaged by a different British author, Charles
Stross. His _Palimpsest_ postulates a society of time travelers who
record several *trillion* years of history, most of it still in our
future. They record literally everything that ever happens.

What's more, they record not just one version of it, but millions of
alternate versions of it.

They store all of these videos in a library at the end of time. All
of Earth's carbon has been (will be) repurposed. It's turned into
diamonds. Carbon has two stable isotopes, C13 and C12. You can use
them to store binary data, a mole of bits for every 12.5 grams of
carbon. A single mole of bits can store about 2 billion years of
high definition video. And there is rather a lot of carbon on Earth.
So the math works out.
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