According to experts, the event took place at 7:25 a.m. EST on the lunar far side, on Friday, Space.com reported. As a result, NASA s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter could not get a look at the crash. Rogue 3-Tonne Piece of Chinese Rocket Debris Collides With Moon, Creates 65 feet wide Crater.
An old Chinese rocket, and not the one from the Elon Musk-owned SpaceX company, is set to crash into the lunar surface on March 4, Bill Gray, an astronomer running Project Pluto, has predicted.