Earth to capture a 'second moon' this weekend, NASA says
Earth will capture a miniature, "second moon" this week, according to NASA scientists. The new moon is actually a tiny asteroid dubbed 2024 PT5. It will start orbiting the planet in a horseshoe path and stick around for a little less than two months before escaping Earth's gravitational pull and going back to its regular orbit around the sun.
Scientists call such phenomena mini-moons. The asteroid was found by a group called ATLAS, which stands for Asteroid ...
Earth has got a new mini-moon for the next couple of days and it has fascinated people across social media. Albeit, it might ...
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The newer mapping method takes elevation on Earth and the moon’s topography into consideration. NASA has developed a process ...
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The Moon’s Surprising Origin: New Evidence Suggests Earth Captured the Moon from SpaceFor nearly four decades, the dominant theory explaining the formation of Earth's moon has been that it originated from a ...
BREAKING 🚨: Earth will temporarily have a mini-moon for two months On Sept. 29 an asteroid known as a ‘mini-moon’ is expected to make a single orbit around Earth and leave on Nov. 25th ...
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