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Why don't they deorbit it to the moon? That way it's debris field can be a monument/grave site.

Hell this is spaceX, why don't they just land the thing on the moon in tact?

For one, the distance to the moon is about 1000 times the distance to earth.

Yes but earths gravity affects it at r^2 so it's like log(1000) scale energy not 1000x

They would need several space stations to iterate until they would be able to nail it.