A piece of space junk slammed into the far side of the moon on Friday after long years of shuffle orbit in deep space.
This piece of junk was deeply observed by major space agencies around the world, and it was expected that this device would hit the moon on Monday, however, nothing changed. But, it is finally hit the moon this morning.
The identity of this device was not discovered before its slam into the moon. It was believed that is was a piece of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that had launched in 2015, however, analysts claimed that this piece of junk belonged that the Chinese Chang'e 5-T1 mission that took off back in 2014.
Early this week, the incident of the device's crash sparked a controversy on social media as people believed that this incident would impact the moon and life on Earth.
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Harvard-Smithsonian Institute for Astrophysics staff member Jonathan McDowell said that strike is "not a big deal at the current level of occupation of the moon, which is currently population: robots, a couple of dozen; humans, zero"
He told National Geographic: "And maybe alien mutants grown from the human poop left there. There’s not much for it to hit."
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