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According to https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/a-rogue-rocket-part-is-about-to-collide-with-the-moon https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science
by jfk13 4y ago
According to https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/a-rogue-rocket-part-is-about-to-collide-with-the-moon https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/a-rogue-r..., this was "the first known event of its kind". So I guess we don't have much to compare with...
- KMag 4y agoThat's not a great source. By "of its kind" they must mean accidental booster stage impacts. NASA intentionally crashed 5 different Saturn V 3rd stages into the moon. At least some of those impacts were to generate vibrations for the seismometers they installed on the moon. See the Wikipedia article linked by the sibling post.