Earth has caught a 'second moon,' scientists say | Space
WEB4 days ago — 2024 PT5 isn't the first asteroid to be captured by Earth and transformed into a mini-moon. Scientists have officially documented two prior "short captures," a type of asteroid-grabbing...
It's official: Earth now has two moons - Earth.com
WEB1 day ago — On Sunday, September 29, our planet captured the tiny asteroid named 2024 PT5, turning it into a temporary mini-moon. This intriguing event was first spotted by astronomers at the Complutense University of Madrid.
NASA to Track Asteroid 2024 PT5 on Next Close Pass, January 2025
WEB1 day ago — NASA to Track Asteroid 2024 PT5 on Next Close Pass, January 2025. The small near-Earth asteroid 2024 PT5 was first observed on Aug. 7, 2024, by the Sutherland, South Africa telescope of the University of Hawai’i’s Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), which is funded by NASA.
Earth Is Getting a New 'Mini Moon' for the Next Two Months, …
WEBSep 20, 2024 — Meet asteroid 2024 PT5, Earth’s latest mini-moon. “It is pretty cool,” Federica Spoto, an asteroid dynamics researcher at the Center for Astrophysics, Harvard and Smithsonian, tells Robin...
Earth is about to have a temporary ‘mini-moon’ | CNN
WEBSep 20, 2024 — The newly discovered asteroid, named 2024 PT5, will temporarily be captured by Earth’s gravity and orbit our world from September 29 to November 25, according to astronomers. Then, the space...
Asteroid will soon enter Earth's orbit as temporary 'mini moon' - NBC News
WEBSep 23, 2024 — The asteroid, dubbed 2024 PT5, is 33 feet long — roughly equivalent to a standard school bus. The space rock does not pose a threat to Earth, and it is not expected to stick around for long...
Earth will get another moon this month — but not for long!
WEBSep 17, 2024 — This month, Earth will grab itself a second moon in the form of the tiny asteroid 2024 PT5. Unlike the moon, Earth's primary companion which has accompanied our planet for around 4 billion...
Tiny Asteroid Will Briefly Become Earth’s Mini Moon - Scientific …
WEBSep 25, 2024 — A small asteroid, 2024 PT5, will spend the next two months alongside our planet as a mini moon before swooping back to deep space.
'Mini Moon' to orbit Earth for two months - BBC
WEBThe asteroid, which scientists refer to as 2024 PT5, hails from the Arjuna asteroid belt, which contains rocks that follow an orbit quite similar to Earth’s. Occasionally, some of these asteroids...
2024 PT5 - Wikipedia
WEB2024 PT5 is a near-Earth object roughly 11 meters (36 ft) in diameter discovered by ATLAS South Africa, Sutherland on 7 August 2024, the day before approaching Earth at 568,500 km (353,200 mi). Orbit. The object orbits the Sun but makes slow close approaches to the Earth–Moon system.
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