Bill Gray, an amateur astronomer and software developer in Maine, first noticed the terminal trajectory.
Gray believes he misidentified the booster as a Falcon 9 years ago.
He and other researchers since confirmed it to be the Chinese rocket part instead.
“It will be the moon’s newest archaeological site,“writes space archaeologist Alice Gorman.
It’s an opportunity to learn more about the moon’s mysterious far side.”
“It already has something like half a billion craters that are 10 meters or more in diameter.
“In essence,” Gray says, “this is a ‘free’ Lcross.”
