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Falcon 9 stage from 2015 predicted to hit the Moon in early March

29 points| mdelias | 4 years ago |projectpluto.com

8 comments

I did some searching, as the article doesn't mention, it seems to be debris from the launch of DSCOVR

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/DSCOVR/in-depth/

A US weather satelite in L1

barbazoo|4 years ago

> DSCOVR (Deep Space Climate Observatory) is an American space weather station that monitors changes in the solar wind, providing space weather alerts and forecasts for geomagnetic storms that could disrupt power grids, satellites, telecommunications, aviation and GPS.

> DSCOVR can warn forecasters 15 to 60 minutes before solar storms reach Earth.

How does one prepare these systems for a solar storm within 15-60 minutes?

IMAYousaf|4 years ago

Seems wild that it would take this long.

NikolaeVarius|4 years ago

Hopefully good data is recorded from this event