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In late January, NASA announced that it will try to observe the crater.

The incident was described as a 'interesting research opportunity' by the agency.

Astronomer Bill Gray made the unexpected news.

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Last month, astronomy specialists misunderstood the night sky's secrets: it turns out that a rocket set to smash into the Lunar in march 11 was made by China, not SpaceX. Experts now predict that a rocket will hit the lunar surface on March 4, but it was not manufactured by Elon Musk's business, but by Beijing, contrary to previous reports. The rocket has been identified as 2014-065B, the launcher for the Chang'e 5-T1, which was launched in 2014 as part of China's lunar exploration programme. 

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Astronomer Bill Gray, who predicted the future effects and confessed his error last weekend, made the surprising revelation. 'This (honest error) merely emphasises the problem with lack of adequate monitoring of these far celestial objects,' astronomer Jonathan McDowell, a proponent of tighter space trash regulations, tweeted. He added in his post, 'The object had roughly the luminosity we would anticipate, and had shown up at the estimated time and was travelling in a suitable orbit.'

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But, he continued, 'in retrospect, I should have seen some unusual things' about its orbit. NASA said in late January that it will use its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which circles the Moon, to study the crater that would be produced by the explosion of this item (LRO). The incident was described as a 'interesting research opportunity' by the agency.

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