Earth To Get A New Moon On Sept. 29, Scientists Say
Say hello to 2024 PT5, Earth’s newest mini-moon. Expected to go into orbit of Earth for a couple of months from Sept. 29, 2024 PT5 is a near-Earth asteroid that’s about to be captured by our planet for a short time before being released back into the solar system to orbit the sun.
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Earth Is Getting a New ‘Mini Moon’ for the Next Two Months, Astronomers SayMeet asteroid 2024 PT5, Earth’s latest mini-moon. “It is pretty cool,” Federica Spoto, an asteroid dynamics researcher at ...
A newly discovered asteroid, also referred to as a mini-moon or second moon, is set to enter Earth's orbit temporarily this ...
Earth will be getting a second moon in the form of Asteroid 2024 PT5, which will start orbiting our planet later this month.
The asteroid is expected to make a “horseshoe path” around Earth over the next two months, researchers wrote in a recent ...
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