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 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 ...
PT5 could be anywhere between 16 to 138 feet across, potentially larger than the asteroid that exploded over Chelyabinsk, ...
You can see the astroid, named 2024 PT5, for a short time before it heads on its way.
Earth is getting a visitor in our orbit for a couple of months.It's nowhere near the size of our actual moon, but they're ...
A small asteroid called 2024 PT5 will temporarily orbit Earth this fall. Here's what it looks like and whether it will be ...
The asteroid is expected to make a “horseshoe path” around Earth over the next two months, researchers wrote in a recent ...
Meet asteroid 2024 PT5, Earth’s latest mini-moon. “It is pretty cool,” Federica Spoto, an asteroid dynamics researcher at the ...
The visiting moon is technically an asteroid known as 2024 PT5, and was initially spotted Aug. 7 by NASA’s Asteroid ...
Volcanoes were erupting on the Moon as recently as 120 million years ago, evidence collected by a Chinese spacecraft suggests. Until the last few years, scientists had thought volcanic activity ended ...
which is the full moon closest to the autumnal equinox, takes center stage with an added boost. The September 2024 full moon will be a super Harvest Moon, which means the moon will display the ...