Musk's rocket is about to hit the moon and will collide with the moon in March this year

ChinaZ.com Jan. 28 -- The Falcon 9 booster was launched in February 2015 as part of a mission to send a climate observation satellite 930,000 miles (1.5 million kilometers) from Earth, but the 4.4-ton rocket has been flying in orbit around space due to fuel depletion.

According to Bill Gray, a software developer who tracks near-Earth, the rocket's superiors are now expected to hit the lunar surface at an extremely fast rate of 9,288 km/h on March 4, 2022.

Harvard astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell wrote on Twitter that confirming the rocket's March 4 impact. While the impact is interesting, he writes, it's no big deal.

Good predictions of where space junk will land are important because it allows satellites currently orbiting the moon, such as NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and India's Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft, to observe the lunar subsurface material revealed by impact craters, and even observe the impact itself.

This isn't the first time a satellite has fallen into the moon. In 2009, NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite was launched at 9,000 km/h toward the moon's south pole, releasing plumes that allowed scientists to detect key features of water ice.