Yep, Earth will temporarily get a second moon. It’s called 2024 PT5 and it’s been called a “mini moon” by astronomers. 2024 ...
Earth is about to gain a new “mini-moon,” but it won’t stay around for long.The newly discovered asteroid, named 2024 PT5, ...
The asteroid was discovered in August and is set to become a mini-moon, spinning around Earth in a horseshoe shape for about ...
The mini-moon is Asteroid 2024 PT5, which was discovered in August. In an article published by the American Astronomical ...
An newly discovered asteroid will be captured by Earth's gravity this fall. The "mini-moon" will spend about two months in ...
The hunk of rock, dubbed 2024 PT5 will fly into Earth's orbit, get caught there from Sept. 29 to Nov. 25 and then go on its ...
Some have debated whether the asteroid even qualifies as a mini-moon due to its relatively small size — clocking in at 33 ...
That’s because, for only the ninth time ever, we were ready for it. Asteroid 2024 RW1 was observed before impacting Earth, meaning time and place of impact could actually be predicted.
American space agency NASA has confirmed that early on Wednesday afternoon, over Luzon Island in the Philippines, a minor asteroid, about the size of a meter, broke apart in Earth's atmosphere.
Video circulating online shows a small asteroid named 2024 RW1, measuring approximately 1 meter in size, disintegrated harmlessly in Earth's atmosphere on Wednesday, as per Nasa reports.
Around 4 billion years ago, an enormous asteroid that was at least 10 times larger than ... the solar system's many moons and larger than the planet Mercury. Just like Earth's moon, Ganymede is ...