China is not SpaceX, it could be the source of a rocket crash on the moon

Almost every new object observed in the sky is an asteroid, and that was the assumption for that object as well. The designation WE0913A was granted.

However, WE0913A was found to be orbiting the Earth, not the Sun, making it likely something that came from Earth. Gray said he thought it might be part of the rocket that launched DSCOVR. More data confirmed that WE0913A passed the moon two days after the launch of DSCOVR, which seems to confirm the identification.

Mr Gray now realizes that his mistake was to think of launching the DSCOVR on a trajectory towards the Moon and using its gravity to bring the spacecraft to its final destination about a million miles from Earth, where the spacecraft would provide a warning of solar storms.

But, as Mr. Giorgini pointed out, DSCOVR was actually launched on a direct trajectory not beyond the Moon.

“I really wish I had reviewed this,” Gray said before his announcement came out in January. “But yes, as soon as John Giorgini pointed it out, it was clear that I had already been wrong.”

SpaceX, which did not respond to a request for comment, did not say WE0913A was not the stage for its rocket. But she probably didn’t locate it either. Most of the time, the second stage of a Falcon 9 is pushed back into the atmosphere to burn. In this case, the missile needed all of its propellant to carry the DSCOVR to its distant destination.

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