Numlock News: March 4, 2022 • Carnivorous Plants, Dark of the Moon, Second Life
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By Walt Hickey Have a great weekend! Moon An hour and 26 minutes after you get this email, four tons of space junk will smash into the far side of the moon at 5,800 miles per hour. The object — first thought to be a SpaceX rocket booster but now believed to be a 65-meter spent Chinese booster launched in 2014 — normally would have crashed back down to Earth, but sometimes the upper stages get into funkier, weird orbits that can interact with the moon, which causes issues like this. While companies and countries are very clear about where their space junk in Earth orbit is — the U.S. Space Force tracks objects up to 22,250 miles above Earth — the moon is 226,000 miles away. No official entity is tracking what goes down over there, which, let’s be honest, is exactly what Michael Bay was warning about in his groundbreaking Decepticon documentary
Numlock News: March 4, 2022 • Carnivorous Plants, Dark of the Moon, Second Life
Numlock News: March 4, 2022 • Carnivorous…
Numlock News: March 4, 2022 • Carnivorous Plants, Dark of the Moon, Second Life
By Walt Hickey Have a great weekend! Moon An hour and 26 minutes after you get this email, four tons of space junk will smash into the far side of the moon at 5,800 miles per hour. The object — first thought to be a SpaceX rocket booster but now believed to be a 65-meter spent Chinese booster launched in 2014 — normally would have crashed back down to Earth, but sometimes the upper stages get into funkier, weird orbits that can interact with the moon, which causes issues like this. While companies and countries are very clear about where their space junk in Earth orbit is — the U.S. Space Force tracks objects up to 22,250 miles above Earth — the moon is 226,000 miles away. No official entity is tracking what goes down over there, which, let’s be honest, is exactly what Michael Bay was warning about in his groundbreaking Decepticon documentary