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Earth's Mini Moon Explained
Can you see Earth's new 'mini-moon' with the naked eye?
On Sunday, Sept. 29, Earth captured a new "mini-moon" called 2024 PT5. The bus-size asteroid is expected to orbit our planet for 57 days, but is too small to be visible to amateur skywatchers.
Earth's Mini-Moon Is Here: Everything You Need to Know About the Temporary Second 'Moon'
Scientists call such phenomena mini-moons. The asteroid was found by a group called ATLAS, which stands for Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, in August. The researchers who found it published a nonpeer-reviewed study about the asteroid.
Earth has a new min-moon. How you can try to see it while it's here
This month, Earth will briefly gain a second moon, a small asteroid known as 2024 PT5. You'll need some special equipment to see it!
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN
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Earth Is Getting a New ‘Mini Moon’ for the Next Two Months, Astronomers Say
Meet asteroid 2024
PT5
, Earth’s latest mini-
moon
. “It is pretty cool,” Federica Spoto, an asteroid dynamics researcher at ...
AZ Central
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Are we getting a second moon? Everything to know about Earth's mini moon
The sky will have a new cosmic visitor this fall: A second
moon
will drift into Earth’s orbit. Asteroid 2024
PT5
is poised to become a temporary mini
moon
of Earth, a phenomenon that will last ...
NBC 6 South Florida on MSN
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Earth just got a second moon, but not for long. Here's why
A second
moon
joined the Earth's orbit on Sunday, September 29 th. The ‘mini
moon
’ is actually a small asteroid, the size ...
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Earth's new mini-moon belongs to a group of promising targets for future asteroid miners trying to send humans on deep-space missions
Asteroids are ripe for mining. Some contain gold or platinum. Others could help make rocket fuel. When they're mini-moons, ...
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Earth has two moons now, but is the 'second moon' visible from India?
Earth's gravity has captured a new temporary companion, Asteroid 2024 PT5, which is roughly the size of a bus. The mini moon ...
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Why Earth Gets A New Moon This Weekend — But Only For 57 Days
Technically a “temporarily captured object,” 2024 PT5 is a near-Earth asteroid and Earth’s newest mini-moon. This 11-meter ...
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