Astronomers have reported that Earth will have two natural satellites for nearly two months, from September 29 to November 25 ...
(CNN) — Earth is about to gain a new “mini-moon,” but it won’t stay around for long.
For almost two months, from 29 September to 25 November, Earth will have two natural satellites, astronomers have announced.
You can see the astroid, named 2024 PT5, for a short time before it heads on its way.
From late September until late November this year, a “mini-moon”, called 2024 PT5 by the astrologers who spotted it ...
Comets take the name of the discoverer, whether that be a human or an automated telescopic survey that robotically inspects ...
SHAPIRO: Writing this month in the journal Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society, scientists estimate the asteroid is 33 feet long - about the size of a bus. And sorry, backyard ...
Earth's orbit will capture a bus-sized asteroid later this month, giving us a second moon for about two months.
The asteroid is expected to make a “horseshoe path” around Earth over the next two months, researchers wrote in a recent ...
Earth's gravity will interrupt asteroid 2024 PT5's 372 day trip around the Sun, making it a temporary satellite.
Earth is about to get a new neighbor in the form of an asteroid. By Nov. 25, the mini-moon is expected to break free of Earth ...
Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS originated from the Oort Cloud, a bubble of ice and dust that surrounds our solar system. It was ...