Where’s The Kaboom?

They’re not saying it was aliens…

NASA has discovered the crash site of a “mystery rocket body” that collided with the Moon’s surface earlier this year. The impact left behind a widespread “double crater,” meaning it wasn’t the average rocket.

However, since its crash landing, none of Earth’s space-exploring nations have claimed responsibility for the mysterious projectile, leaving NASA scientists baffled as to who was behind its launch. New images shared on June 24 by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter show the unusual impact site.

More at NASA.

31 Replies to “Where’s The Kaboom?”

  1. Chyna. They were going to send a surprise broadcast from the moon once they started establishing their military base, but you know. Ka boom.

  2. Okay, where is the debris field? No oxygen so no burning up after impact.
    There should be pieces of the rocket in the area. Even with only 1/6 Earth gravity, there should still be the larger or heavier pieces in the vicinity of the impact.

    I am not an expert on impacts so if anyone can enlighten me that would be great.

    1. A high speed impact would create a very large cloud of dust that would settle over everything.

  3. Its aliens from the Soviet Galaxy.

    They tried to attack earth using updated MIR technology.

    Starship Lada has landed.

    1. From the article…

      “Astronomers anticipated the crash after spotting the unidentified rocket on a collision course with the Moon late last year.”

      My question is… Unidentified?… how many different ‘space’ rocket designs can there be?

    2. At first that is what I thought… especially after looking at the pics

      but they say it is a ” rocket body” which means parts of a rocket are there ( I don t see them , all I see is a regular crater identical to the other craters around it)

      There is something suspicious about the whole thing

      with today s technology no one can fly a gigantic rocket without being detected ( see my other comment below )

      1. It will be ascribed to Putin … and hence another reason Bidinh’s handlers will call for the start of WWIII …

  4. Back in the mid 1990s I clearly remember watching documentaries on PBS, and in one they said that the USA had such advanced technology that after an astronaut dropped a screwdriver while fixing the space station, they were able to follow the screwdriver for weeks until it entered the atmosphere and burned to ashes.

    But a gigantic rocket went unnoticed???

    with today’s far better technology than in the 1990s???

    Really???

    Something does not add up.

    Someone is lying.

    1. Doesn’t exactly fill you with confidence about N. America’s defensive readiness, does it?

      Maybe our spooks should spend some frigging time monitoring things OUTSIDE of our own borders, for a change.

      Also… they’ve had half a year and they still couldn’t find a way to blame this on Trump? Pitiful.

    2. NASA used to be able to lie with impunity about space and other related fictions. Especially after indoctrinating an entire generation with their “moon landings” that so enraptured their emotions that they have forever set aside logic regarding this fantasy. But since people have since disproven so many of their lies, contradictions, half-truths, etc. Plus found polar bears and rodents in their pictures from “Mars”, their astronauts leaking bubbles into space, etc., they have to be far more careful. And also ensure that nothing they post can be fact-checked.

      No surprise that the impact was on the “far side of the moon”. After all, telescopes and even digital cameras are so advanced today that people would be able to zoom in to that area.

      But NASA is funded handsomely to keep people believing in this lie, so they have to put out exciting new stories every now and then.

  5. This is the kind of stuff NASA is good at. Not that “climate change” garbage. I’ll bet most at NASA would agree.

  6. No matter how advanced their technology, it seems the Chinese can’t stop being bad drivers.

  7. There’s a planet with smartish beings less than 300,000 miles from the moon, so I’m going to go out on a limb and say that they probably had something to do with it.

  8. Sorry. I really should have got the piezo igniter on my barbeque fixed. This was bound to happen sooner or later.

  9. People have been launching stuff at the moon for 60 years. Some of it worked, some didn’t, and some missed the moon altogether.

    My guess is that this is one of the early Lunokhod or Ranger missions’ booster. Perhaps one malfunctioned at stage separation, missing the moon and entering an orbit that didn’t intersect for 55 years, so the double crater would be due to the still-attached payload at one end and heavy engines at the other.

    The Russians didn’t publicize their failed missions, and this object wouldn’t have been continually tracked for decades; the fact that it was spotted at all is testament to the value of amateurs to astronomy.

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