Likely very little to none. Something that size mostly burns up in the atmosphere. Maybe a schoolboy would be slightly singed by a pebble while walking home.
I'm going to guess that this telescope takes color pictures by making a series of long exposures while cycling through red/green/blue filters. The object being tracked will appear normal, while objects in relative motion (in this case, the background stars) will appear as a trail of colors.
Also when you take into account that the moon is formed from the outer layers of the earth it lacks a lot of the heavy elements like iron that the Earth has in it's core making the mass about 1.2% of the mass of the Earth [1].
It's much smaller compared to the earth than you would think just by looking at it but it is still a very large moon for a planet the size of the Earth.
"Of all the moons of the eight planets, Earth's moon is by far the largest relative to its planet, with a diameter of 3476 km and hence a ratio to Earth's diameter of 0.2764. By comparison, the next largest moon relative to a major planet (Triton of Neptune) has a diameter ratio of just .0546." [2]
The moon is also larger than Pluto (in the same reference as above) :)
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Maybe is a spy satellite trying to fix the seti canal TV. They must be worried by the sudden lack of signal
In any case if is this tiny shouldn't be named a moon. I want to propose the term "miin" that seems more accurate.
https://www.space.com/6833-boy-hit-meteorite.html
Famous previous case:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylacauga_(meteorite)
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1232748533486276608
:)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_orbital_launch_s...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_CD3
So the earth is not a planet.
It's much smaller compared to the earth than you would think just by looking at it but it is still a very large moon for a planet the size of the Earth.
"Of all the moons of the eight planets, Earth's moon is by far the largest relative to its planet, with a diameter of 3476 km and hence a ratio to Earth's diameter of 0.2764. By comparison, the next largest moon relative to a major planet (Triton of Neptune) has a diameter ratio of just .0546." [2]
The moon is also larger than Pluto (in the same reference as above) :)
[1] https://www.universetoday.com/20489/moon-compared-to-earth/
[2] https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/General_Astronomy/Planetary_Mo...
In 2017 we had a visitor from outer space called ʻOumuamua :)
This new object is also about 2-3.5 meters according to wikipedia so I want someone to send a ship to capture this Van Neumann probe [2]!
(Yes I know it's not likely but it is cool to think about)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_CD3
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-replicating_spacecraft
Also, practicing emergency missions would prepare us for investigation of unusual objects like Oumuamua.