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Earth Bids Goodbye to Its ‘Mini-Moon’ as Astronomers Investigate Where Our Planet’s Asteroid Companion Came FromPreliminary research suggests asteroid 2024 PT5, which stuck around Earth for almost two months, has lunar origins ...
Earth is saying goodbye to an asteroid that has been a "mini-moon" of sorts since late September, when it joined the planet's ...
The asteroid, named 2024 WF5, will come over twice as close to us as the moon, at a distance of around 104,000 miles.
The near-Earth asteroid (NEO) 2024 PT5 was snared by the gravitational influence of our planet on Sept. 29 ... moon to stop ...
“There are hundreds of millions of asteroids in the Solar System, the majority of which are in the main belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. But some of these asteroids, either through ...
The mini-moon is officially known as asteroid 2024 PT5. After first joining up with Earth on Sept. 29, 2024, the mini-moon left its orbit around our planet ... Arjuna asteroid belt, a secondary ...
Planet Earth and a large asteroid in space ... This discovery is particularly interesting because it suggests that the Arjuna asteroid belt, where 2024 PT5 normally resides, might contain many ...
Asteroid 2006 WB will zoom by Earth on Tuesday, and astronomers say it’s one of nearly 40,000 near-Earth objects (NEO), which is not even the most exciting. Lowell Observatory astronomer and ...
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