{"id":34247,"date":"2026-07-29T17:09:49","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T21:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=34247"},"modified":"2026-07-29T17:09:49","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T21:09:49","slug":"a-spacex-rocket-is-about-to-hit-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=34247","title":{"rendered":"A SPACEX ROCKET IS ABOUT TO HIT THE MOON"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Potential target for binoculars or small telescopes&#8211;CPL<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Space Weather News for July 28, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A SPACEX ROCKET IS ABOUT TO HIT THE MOON:<\/strong>\u00a0 On Aug. 5th, a dead SpaceX rocket will slam into the Moon near Einstein crater. The explosion itself will be hidden in lunar daylight, but a new study says the debris plume could rise above the Moon&#8217;s edge, visible from Earth for as much as 10 minutes.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/spaceweather.com\/\">https:\/\/spaceweather.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/4\/49\/Location_Crater_Einstein.jpg\/960px-Location_Crater_Einstein.jpg?_=20150504113717\" srcset=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/4\/49\/Location_Crater_Einstein.jpg?_=20150504113717 2x\" alt=\"File:Location Crater Einstein.jpg\" width=\"215\" height=\"215\" data-file-width=\"980\" data-file-height=\"980\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"sFlh5c FyHeAf iPVvYb aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/c02.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2024\/01\/crater-einstein-location.jpg?w=1200\" alt=\"How to see tricky Crater Einstein on the Moon | BBC Sky at Night Magazine\" width=\"335\" height=\"223\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Potential target for binoculars or small telescopes&#8211;CPL Space Weather News for July 28, 2026 A SPACEX ROCKET IS ABOUT TO HIT THE MOON:\u00a0 On Aug. 5th, a dead SpaceX rocket will slam into the Moon near Einstein crater. The explosion itself will be hidden in lunar daylight, but a new study says the debris plume &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=34247\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A SPACEX ROCKET IS ABOUT TO HIT THE MOON<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":645,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[133],"tags":[1794,1201],"class_list":["post-34247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy-news","tag-einstein-crater","tag-moon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34248,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34247\/revisions\/34248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}