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Wayward SpaceX rocket to slam into moon, leave 16-foot-deep crater
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A wayward 8,800-pound SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket booster slammed into the moon very early Wednesday in a rare case of a man-made collision with the lunar surface, scientists confirmed.
The rocket, which was about 45 feet long and 12 feet wide, crashed with a force of nearly 3 tons of TNT, slamming into the lunar surface at 5,400 miles per hour.
The crater it created could be 100 feet wide and 16 feet deep.
Firefly's Blue Ghost-1 ultimately made a successful landing on the moon, while Japan's ispace Hakuto-R crash-landed on the surface.
A Japanese robotic probe hit the moon in 1993 and a European Space Agency satellite collided with the lunar surface in 2006.