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The piece of space junk that slammed in the moon was the second stage, at the upper stage, of one of SpaceX's falcons, nine rockets. And that had been launched January 15, 2025. It carried two lunar landers, the Blue Coast, and the Hakuto R. The Blue Coast touched down March 2025, but the Hakuto crashed, crash landed June 2025. And the piece of the rocket was drifting in an elliptical orbit around Earth before solar radiation and lunar gravity drew away from us, and it agreed with about 4.4 tons and struck the lunar surface at about 5,400 miles per hour, or 8,000 summer at flowers are. And that's still way slower than the average lunar landers.