The Centuar rocket, which had launched the LCROSS moon probe, was travelling twice as fast as a speeding bullet and exploded with a force equal to 1.5tonnes of TNT.
However the impact didn’t throw up a spectacular plume of debris as expected. Scientists had hoped to see 350 tonnes of material propelled six miles high into the sunlight following the first collision.
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