Jon Giorgini, a scientist working at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), alerted Gray to his error. Since JPL tracks all NASA’s missions, they knew this was not a SpaceX rocket.
Gray retracted his claim and identified the rocket as a third stage booster from a Long March 3C China-based rocket. And said it was most likely used to launch China’s Chang’e 5-T1 craft in October 2014.
China denies that this space junk came from them.
And since the object is estimated to be the size of a school bus it cannot be confirmed.
Experts created a physics-based simulation video showing how the crash likely happened. And the Virtual Telescope shows the allegedly China-based rocket debris on-course to hit the moon.
