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The ascent module (pictured) may still be orbiting the moon or it exploded. According to the new calculations, the space junk never crash-landed onto the moon s surface as previously expected. (NASA APPEL Knowledge Services via Flickr under Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC 2.0))
by David Kindy/Smithsonianmag.com
Independent researcher James Meador at the California Institute of Technology had an idea: using new gravitational data of the Moon, maybe he could track where the Apollo 11 ascent stage crashed after it returned astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the command module following the first lunar landing in 1969. He was thrilled to pursue the chance to locate the impact site on the moon for history’s sake.
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by David Kindy/Smithsonianmag.com
Amateur astronomer Kai Ly is on a roll. They rediscovered four “lost” Jupiter moons last year. Now, Ly has located a previously unknown moon orbiting the biggest planet in our solar system.
“I’m proud to say that this is the first planetary moon discovered by an amateur astronomer!” they posted June 30 in a message at the Minor Planet Mailing List (MPML), an online community of the world’s leading amateur astronomers.
Using old telescope images, Ly was able spot the unnamed satellite orbiting Jupiter, which is nearly 385 million miles from Earth. The distant planet has at least 79 moons now 80 some so small and indistinct they can only be detected by a large telescope one month of the year.
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