Technically a “temporarily captured object,” 2024 PT5 is a near-Earth asteroid and Earth’s newest mini-moon. This 11-meter ...
We think of the moon as orbiting the earth, following a spiraling trajectory as the earth itself orbits the sun. But this is ...
Meet asteroid 2024 PT5, Earth’s latest mini-moon. “It is pretty cool,” Federica Spoto, an asteroid dynamics researcher at ...
This week see many special celestial sights, from a bright comet and a solar eclipse to a bright Venus and the possibility of ...
When the German Space Agency and European Space Agency unveiled their version of the moon-- the LUNA Analog Facility-- in ...
On Sunday, Sept. 29, Earth captured a new "minimoon" called 2024 PT5. The bus-size asteroid is expected to orbit our planet ...