Earth will have a temporary mini-moon for 2 months this fall
You might not be able to see it without a powerful telescope, but Earth will get its own mini-moon for 57 days this fall as a big space rock known as 2024 PT5 cruises alongside us in a partial horseshoe-shaped orbit. This mini-moon should be pulled into our planet’s gravitational ZIP code from Sept. 29 to Nov. 25, according to NPR.
A moonlet from the Arjuna asteroid belt is set to fall into Earth's orbit for 57 days. The school-bus-sized space rock won't ...
It is expected to follow a horseshoe-type orbit to become a “mini-moon” of Earth on 29 September only to return to a path ...
The regular Moon’s new, temporary friend is 2024 PT₅, an asteroid captured from the Arjuna asteroid group (called the ...
This is an odd one. A new mini-moon the size of a city bus will soon be circling our planet and hanging out in our skies until Thanksgiving week. An asteroid named 2024 PT5 will enter Earth's ...
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