NASA to Track Asteroid 2024 PT5 on Next Close Pass, January 2025
Oct 2, 2024 · Part of NASA’s Deep Space Network, the Goldstone Solar System Radar, near Barstow in California, will track the object during its next close pass of our planet, in January 2025, which will still be five times as far from Earth as the Moon.
Earth has caught a 'second moon,' scientists say | Space
Sep 30, 2024 · 2024 PT5 isn't the first asteroid to be captured by Earth and transformed into a mini-moon. Scientists have officially documented two prior "short captures," a type of asteroid-grabbing...
Earth Is Getting a New 'Mini Moon' for the Next Two Months, …
Sep 20, 2024 · Meet asteroid 2024 PT5, Earth’s latest mini-moon. “It is pretty cool,” Federica Spoto, an asteroid dynamics researcher at the Center for Astrophysics, Harvard and Smithsonian, tells Robin...
Asteroid will soon enter Earth's orbit as temporary 'mini moon' - NBC News
A school-bus-sized asteroid is expected to spend about two months orbiting Earth as a "mini moon" as it gets temporarily caught by Earth’s gravity.
A space rock is about to become Earth’s new ‘mini-moon’ - CNN
Sep 20, 2024 · The newly discovered asteroid, named 2024 PT5, will temporarily be captured by Earth’s gravity and orbit our world from September 29 to November 25, according to astronomers. Then, the space...
2024 PT5 - Wikipedia
2024 PT5 is a near-Earth object roughly 11 meters (36 ft) in diameter discovered by ATLAS South Africa, Sutherland on 7 August 2024, the day before approaching Earth at 568,500 km (353,200 mi). Orbit. The object orbits the Sun but makes slow close approaches to the Earth–Moon system.
Tiny Asteroid Will Briefly Become Earth’s Mini Moon - Scientific …
Sep 25, 2024 · First spied on August 7 by a telescope in South Africa as it swooped within about a half-million kilometers of Earth, the 10-meter-wide object, dubbed 2024 PT5, appears to be a relatively...
Earth’s new ‘companion asteroid’ discovered by UH-operated …
Sep 24, 2024 · Earth’s gravitational pull will snag 2024 PT5 between September 29 and November 25, before it escapes the planet’s orbit and continues its journey around the Sun. UH experts describe the orbit of 2024 PT5 as “Earth-like,” meaning that the asteroid is nearly the same distance from the Sun as the Earth and spends all of its time along a ...
Earth will get a 'mini-moon' this month, but it's only visiting
Sep 19, 2024 · Asteroid 2024 PT5 is passing so close that it will temporarily join Earth and essentially become a "mini-moon." This happens once in a while with near-Earth objects, or NEOs, due to their path...
A new 'mini-moon' comes to Earth this fall : NPR
Sep 21, 2024 · Despite that program’s menacing name, scientists say there is no cause for worry and assure that 2024 PT5 is not on a collision course with Earth. An newly discovered asteroid will be captured by Earth's gravity this fall. The "mini-moon" will spend about two months in Earth's orbit, before being flung back on its normal path around the sun.
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