Falcon 9 upper stage impact crater is catalogued in this registry as an impact-site, held in the frame of Moon, from Artificial impact sites (curated).
Registry id IMP_2025_010D ·
source layer impacts ·
provenance PROCESSED — derived deterministically from source catalogues (unit, frame and epoch conversions, cross-source reconciliation) — no value invented
Exists from 2026-08-05 06:35:37 UTC (JD 2461257.77474) — no end date is recorded.
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| Kind | impact-site |
|---|---|
| Origin | artificial (made by humans) |
| Planetary protection | target Luna · contact class surface · COSPAR category II under the policy in force at launch (II under the 2026 policy) · documentation: undocumented — a DOCUMENTATION fact, never a compliance verdict |
SURVEYED crater of a ~4,900 kg Falcon 9 second stage (COSPAR 2025-010D, the registry object GCAT_S62719) that struck the Moon near crater Einstein at 2.43 km/s. Crater centre 19.4759°N 266.7138°E, 511 m elevation, about 18 m (60 ft) across and less than 3 m deep, located by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter narrow-angle camera on 2026 August 11-12 (NASA, 2026 August 18), after Korea's Danuri spotted it first. The INSTANT, 2026 August 5 06:35:37.5 UTC, is the orbit determination's, not a measurement (Bill Gray / Project Pluto, solution of 2026 August 1, public domain); that determination put the impact at 19.461°N 266.707°E, 0.49 km from the surveyed centre, and the drawn stage still ends at its point. [crater surveyed: NASA LRO / LROC, science.nasa.gov 2026-08-18 · instant: Project Pluto orbit determination]
Reproduced as the source wrote it. Author-year citations link to their DOI where one is registered.
These are absences in the catalogues aggregated here, not measurements of zero, and not statements that the quantity is unknown to science:
| Database | Artificial impact sites (curated) |
|---|---|
| Authority | NASA NSSDCA · LROC (Wagner et al. 2017) · HiRISE · mission pages |
| Licence | Public record |
| How it entered | Curated data-as-code (src/ingest/catalogs/impacts.ts) |
| Coverage | The located human-made impact craters/scars on the Moon, Mars and Mercury, surface-fixed at their measured lat/lon, each linking its high-resolution image |
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