A small asteroid will join Earth's orbit around the sun for two months beginning Sunday, becoming a 'mini-moon.' ...

Earth will temporarily capture a mini moon, Asteroid 2024 PT5, about 10 meters wide, for roughly two months starting Sunday.

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Scientists call such phenomena mini-moons. The asteroid was found by a group called ATLAS, which stands for Asteroid ...

PT5 — was first spotted in August by astronomers at Complutense University of Madrid using a powerful telescope located in ...

The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...

But asteroids aren't inherently menacing. They're just ancient objects, formed early in our solar system's history, that ...

The asteroid was first detected by NASA’s Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) on August 7. , Technology & ...

Astrologer Lisa Stardust, author of Saturn Return Survival Guide, suggests the mini-Moon might amplify the effects of eclipse ...

Small asteroid 2022 EB5 impacted Earth was discovered by Krisztián Sárneczky using the 0.60-m Schmidt telescope at Konkoly ...

Earth's orbit will temporarily capture a mini moon - a tiny asteroid called Asteroid 2024 PT5. An astronomer tells whether we'll be able to see it.

Earth has a new “mini- moon ” after an asteroid has joined our orbit. The object, known as 2024 PT5, has been chasing after us for years. Now, it has become close enough to be pulled in by our gravity ...