Tiny Asteroid Will Briefly Become Earth’s Mini Moon
image via New Scientist
September 25, 2024, 4:00 PM
- •A small asteroid, 2024 PT5, will spend the next two months alongside our planet as a mini moon before swooping back to deep space.
- •The mini moon will be too small and dim to be seen by backyard telescopes.
- •Based on 122 measurements of its orbit across 21 days, 2024 PT5 is predicted to be transiently captured by Earth again in 2055.
A small asteroid, 2024 PT5, will spend the next two months alongside our planet as a mini moon before swooping back to deep space. It will be too small and dim to be seen by backyard telescopes, but astronomers will be able to track its orbit.
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