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Forum: Satellites - Robotic Probes
Topic: SpaceX rocket stage impacts moon (8.5.26)

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Message to Edit: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	Originally posted by Robert Pearlman on 08-05-2026 02:28 PM Boston University scientist Carl Schmidt [URL=https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/science/space-x-moon-crash-confirmation.html]used the Very Large Telescope[/URL] in Chile... <BLOCKQUOTE>[i]...to measure sodium and lithium in a plume a few tens of kilometers in size that lasted five to 10 minutes after impact. Dr. Schmidt said he was "100 percent confident" that the readings came from the impact. However, it seems that no one was able to directly see or photograph the collision. "I've so far only heard negatives from imaging folks," Mr. Lierle said. The anticlimactic demise of the rocket stage was not a surprise. Computer simulations calculated the effect of the rocket stage striking the moon in a vertical orientation, which would have produced the most debris, but the stage would more likely have belly-flopped at an angle instead. (The vertical case was the only one simple enough to be computed.)[/i]</BLOCKQUOTE>
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