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muriel_volestrangler

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20. No, it wasn't 'burning' - none of them can do that for long - just minutes

Reply to Takket (Reply #4)

Wed Jun 29, 2022, 07:15 PM

Jun 2022

(apart from the few ion-drive-engined craft NASA has launched, and they're well tracked). It's something launched years ago. In January, they thought it was a SpaceX stage launched in 2015; by February, a Chinese stage launched in 2014. But they just don't seem able to tell, and it looks like none of them want to admit having no idea where their junk has ended up.

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A "mystery rocket" crashed into the moon and NASA is baffled as to origin [View all] JoanofArgh Jun 2022 OP

K&R BlueJac Jun 2022 #1

How do they know it was a rocket? grumpyduck Jun 2022 #2

little green men.....???? essaynnc Jun 2022 #3

was it an active rocket? Takket Jun 2022 #4

No, it wasn't 'burning' - none of them can do that for long - just minutes muriel_volestrangler Jun 2022 #20

I would expect that NORAD would be aware of any rocket launches Victor_c3 Jun 2022 #35

Obviously came in from the lost planet Oron. Sneederbunk Jun 2022 #5

OH MY GOD, THEY BOMBED THE MOON. Tommy Carcetti Jun 2022 #6

Gomer gohmert dweller Jun 2022 #10

Menstrual cycles...trying to get all women... ret5hd Jun 2022 #18

NASA sent it. It's a scam to get them funding to send another astronaut to the Moon. Towlie Jun 2022 #7

NASA smelt it, I bet they dealt it (Nt) FreepFryer Jun 2022 #8

nah... myohmy2 Jun 2022 #22

Very interesting. An old rocket from the USSR? captain queeg Jun 2022 #9

I thought that I read that China was sending a vehicle Firestorm49 Jun 2022 #17

Yeah. I think they already did. Can't remember if it had a lander. captain queeg Jun 2022 #21

Damn, so that's where it landed gratuitous Jun 2022 #11

1996 movie, Independence Day. We are looking at them, they are looking at us. irisblue Jun 2022 #12

I'm guessing it is from one of 5 nations. LonePirate Jun 2022 #13

Does the rocket look like a coffin and does it say Hargreeves anywhere on Baitball Blogger Jun 2022 #14

It must have something to do with Jewish space lasers. madinmaryland Jun 2022 #15

That moon is our's ! dweller Jun 2022 #16

29 meters - those are big holes ThoughtCriminal Jun 2022 #19

Only one interstellar object could leave a double crater. Beastly Boy Jun 2022 #23

It was Danny 48656c6c6f20 Jun 2022 #24

The Borg sent Voyager back...they're not interested...n/t bluecollar2 Jun 2022 #25

Ordered and executed by North Korea's Midget King Stinky The Clown Jun 2022 #26

Wouldn't US satellites have noticed if a rocket had been launched from earth? TomSlick Jun 2022 #27

Le Voyage dans le Lune...maybe it was French? AntiFascist Jun 2022 #28

I think it was that Tesla car Musk shot into space... Paha Sapa Jun 2022 #29

As a Tesla driver I LOL'd! beaglelover Jun 2022 #31

Why do they assume it came from Earth?? beaglelover Jun 2022 #30

They were tracking it before it hit the Moon. MineralMan Jun 2022 #36

Maybe a private person built it Polybius Jun 2022 #32

Seems unlikely to me. It's hard enough to put something in MineralMan Jun 2022 #37

It could be this guy. area51 Jun 2022 #33

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