Corrected identification of object about to hit the moon

There is a photo&#x2F;video of the booster by an amateur with a a nice telescope system of the alleged “Falcon 9” that went viral<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;virtualtelescop&#x2F;status&#x2F;1490782845144637440?s=21" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;virtualtelescop&#x2F;status&#x2F;14907828451446374...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.virtualtelescope.eu&#x2F;2022&#x2F;02&#x2F;09&#x2F;spacex-falcon-9-upper-stage-going-to-hit-the-moon-a-memorable-coverage-of-its-last-fly-by-8-feb-2022&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.virtualtelescope.eu&#x2F;2022&#x2F;02&#x2F;09&#x2F;spacex-falcon-9-u...</a>

O wow, one of my first expensive pieces of software I bought when I was young. Guide for DOS by ProjectPluto. I wanted to find out if the so called predicted Galactic Center conjunction with the winter solstice really took place in 2012 (as popularized by John Major Jenkins in Maya Cosmogenesis 2021).<p>It turned out it took place - according to the algorithms and ephemerids of Guide - in 1998 or 1999, depending on the arc second definition you use. Great software.

DSCOVR is a pretty cool project. It always stays on the sunlit side of the earth and has a decent camera (called EPIC) viewing the full disc. You can view it here[0].<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;epic.gsfc.nasa.gov&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;epic.gsfc.nasa.gov&#x2F;</a>

edit: has been fixed, thanks hn<p>This title is incorrect and should be fixed. The actual title is &quot;Corrected identification of object about to hit the moon&quot; since the object has not been positively identified by anybody.

It’s quite surprising how little verification went into the original claim that it was a falcon 9 before the outpouring of standard anti-Elon driven outrage.

Nice advertisement spacex

I dunno man, if Elon is willing to pay someone a small stack of cash to take down their Twitter account tracking his private jet, surely he&#x27;d be willing to pay astronomers to change their story<p>&#x2F;s