{
  "id": 5101471,
  "title": "A 13-meter rocket hit the Moon: Tasmanian researchers helped track it there",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/02/a-13-meter-rocket-hit-the-moon-tasmanian-researchers-helped-track-it",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-09-02T13:40:06.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phys.org",
    "slug": "phys-org",
    "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-09-meter-rocket-moon-tasmanian-track.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A 13-meter (43-foot) Falcon 9 rocket stage struck the moon last month, leaving a crater about 20 meters (66 feet) wide. In the days before impact, University of Tasmania researchers from the School of Natural Sciences were the first in the world to detect the object by radar, helping refine predictions of where it would land.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}