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    From Lynn McGuire@lynnmcguire5@gmail.com to rec.arts.sf.written on Wed Aug 5 00:42:47 2026
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    rCLA 9,000-pound SpaceX rocket will crash into the moon tonight. Will you
    be able to see it?rCY

    https://www.space.com/astronomy/moon/a-9-000-pound-spacex-rocket-will-crash-into-the-moon-tonight-will-you-be-able-to-see-it

    rCLThe 45-foot-long (13.8-meter), 8,000-pound (4,000-kilogram) rocket
    stage, left over from the January 2025 launch of Firefly Aerospace's
    Blue Ghost and ispace's Hakuto-R lunar missions, is expected to strike
    the moon at about 2:35 a.m. EDT (0635 UTC) on Aug. 5. Traveling at
    roughly 5,400 mph (8,700 km/h), the impact will occur near the moon's
    western limb, close to Einstein Crater on the moon's Earth-facing side.rCY

    Heads up, incoming.

    Lynn

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  • From WolfFan@akwolffan@zoho.com to rec.arts.sf.written on Thu Aug 6 14:41:15 2026
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    On Aug 5, 2026, Lynn McGuire wrote
    (in article <114uigp$2nksj$1@dont-email.me>):

    rCLA 9,000-pound SpaceX rocket will crash into the moon tonight. Will you
    be able to see it?rCY

    https://www.space.com/astronomy/moon/a-9-000-pound-spacex-rocket-will-crash-in
    to-the-moon-tonight-will-you-be-able-to-see-it

    rCLThe 45-foot-long (13.8-meter), 8,000-pound (4,000-kilogram) rocket
    stage, left over from the January 2025 launch of Firefly Aerospace's
    Blue Ghost and ispace's Hakuto-R lunar missions, is expected to strike
    the moon at about 2:35 a.m. EDT (0635 UTC) on Aug. 5. Traveling at
    roughly 5,400 mph (8,700 km/h), the impact will occur near the moon's
    western limb, close to Einstein Crater on the moon's Earth-facing side.rCY

    Heads up, incoming.

    Lynn

    not a big deal. 8700 km/h is about 2.4 km/s. Four tonnes at 2.4 km/s would release energy about equivalent to 2.75 or so tonnes of TNT. The Moon gets similar impacts on an almost daily basis. The Earth would, too, except that objects of that size and mass would tend to burn up in the atmosphere before impact.

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