Earth's Mini-Moon Is Arriving Today. What to Know About Our 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.
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 diameter near-Earth asteroid — about the same as a London bus — is expected to stay in orbit for a couple of months before resuming its own journey through the solar system on Nov. 25.
This week see many special celestial sights, from a bright comet and a solar eclipse to a bright Venus and the possibility of ...
First came the surprising discovery that Earth’s atmosphere is leaking. But for roughly 60 years, the reason remained a ...
From these indirect observations, scientists have calculated that the scorchingly hot inner core, with temperatures ...
For decades, astronomers have seen the "before" and "after" of this process — when a planet is orbiting very close to its ...
BBC Studios and Samsung TV Plus, Samsung’s free, ad-supported streaming TV (FAST) service, announce today the launch of FAST ...
Our planet is set to gain a second, 'mini-moon' tonight (29 September), which will stick around for a couple of months. It is ...
"As the lithosphere thickened and dripped below the region, it formed a basin at the surface that later sprang up when the ...
A comet that has not been seen for more than 80,000 years is expected to be visible from Earth, potentially during two separate time periods in the next month.
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