Out Of Control Rocket To Hit The Moon This Morning
An out-of-control rocket is about to crash into the moon.
Forbes reports that it was first thought to belong to SpaceX but NASA now believes it’s from a Chinese test mission launched in 2014. That means it’s been floating in orbit for almost eight years even though China claims it already burned up.
Either way, the moon will take a direct hit at about 7:25 am Eastern today but scientists say the impact will be minor. There will be no live coverage because no video cameras roll continuously on the moon, but the new crater will soon be visible on upcoming photos of the moon.
If this gives you any anxiety, then you may want to stop reading.
A new study finds that in 10,000 years, two massive black holes will merge in a collision that will “send ripples across the universe.”
A research team of CalTech Astronomers discovered that these black holes are about nine billion light-years away. They have a mass that is hundreds of millions of times larger than that of our sun. The researchers say that the collision will be so intense once the holes crash they will severely disrupt the gravitational waves between time and space.
In October of last year a meteor crashed through a roof and landed right on a pillow beside a sleeping woman in British Columbia, and she lived to tell her story.
The woman told Canada’s CBC News, “The next thing was just a huge explosion and debris all over my face. I jumped out of bed and turned on the lights. I didn’t know what else to do, so I called 911.”
A chunk of rock about the size of a melon had plummeted from space. It tore through the woman’s roof before coming to rest inches from her head. She said, “I was shaking like a leaf. You’re sound asleep, safe, you think, in your bed, and you can get taken out by a meteorite, apparently.”
Christie’s auction house confirmed to Fox News that it is hosting an auction that includes a doghouse from Costa Rica that was struck by a meteorite on April 23, 2019. The occupant of the house, a German Shepard named Roky, wasn’t injured during the incident. Though the dog was understandably startled by event.
Peter Brown, a professor of physics and astronomy at Western University, confirmed what it was, saying, “It’s certainly a meteorite.”
