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   Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Aug-2023 22:54:48 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️

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   • planet4589 (Jonathan McDowell)

   @planet4589 I’m curious what Russian propaganda will make of it, something like “first planned kinetic impactor to create an artifical crater”

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     planet4589 (Jonathan McDowell) (planet4589@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Aug-2023 22:54:50 JST planet4589 (Jonathan McDowell)

     Russia's Luna-25 probe fired its engine a bit too long and ended up with negative perilune; it impacted the lunar surfact on Aug 19 near the crater Pontecoulant G.