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Pretty interesting stuff.

An out-of-control booster from a SpaceX rocket has been drifting through space for seven years, and astronomers say it's now on a collision course with the moon.

The booster, also known as the second stage, was left derelict and on a shaky orbit after propelling the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Deep Space Climate Observatory far into space to help monitor space weather.

Here, it was left in a kind of purgatory, where it was too far from Earth to tumble back down, but not far enough to escape the gravitational pull of the Earth-moon system.

Bill Gray of space blog projectpluto.com first reported the upcoming crash, and said he believes it's "the first unintentional case" of space junk colliding with the moon.

Gray, along with other space observers, believes the booster, which weighs approximately four metric tons, will strike the far side of the moon near its equator at 2.58 kilometres per second on March 4.

Wonder what Bruce Willis is up to these days?

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world...?ocid=msedgntp