This is not the first mini-moon that Earth has had. 2024 PT5 is tracing a very similar path to asteroid 2022 NX1, which was also about 33 feet in diameter. In 1981 and 2022, the asteroid 2022 NX1 ...

Called a "mini-moon" of sorts by some ... 2024 PT5 is only 33 feet wide, making it too small to see from Earth without a high-powered telescope. "The object is too small and dim for typical ...

About 55 to 65 feet in size, the Chelyabinsk asteroid ... astronomers expect it to become Earth’s mini-moon for a few days in November 2055 and again for a few weeks in early 2084.

Asteroid 2024 PT5 is poised to become a temporary mini moon of Earth ... which is about 33 feet, roughly the size of a city bus. In contrast, Earth's moon has a diameter of 2,159 miles, making ...

it will stay near Earth for a while. This means we get a mini-moon for 56.6 days, but it won't be anything close to the Moon we have always known. 2024 PT-5 is only 24 feet wide. The same distance ...

Analyzing the object, around 10 meters (33 feet) in diameter ... turning it into a temporary mini-moon of the Earth. "Earth can regularly capture asteroids from the Near-Earth object (NEO ...

Planet Earth is bidding farewell to a "mini moon," a harmless asteroid named 2024 PT5, which has been trailing Earth for two months and will leave on Monday, drawn away by the sun’s stronger ...

Earth is about to get a new neighbor ... The average home telescope won’t be able to capture it, either. The mini-moon will be small — 33 feet long — and dim. NASA uses magnitude to describe ...

Earth obtained a new mini-moon, which is actually a near-Earth asteroid, named 2024 PT, on Sept. 29. The asteroid is estimated to be 33 feet wide, about the length of a school bus and at least ...

and will temporarily join the moon in its orbit around the Earth next week, becoming a mini-moon. Asteroid 2024 PT5 is about the size of a bus, standing at around 33 feet long, and researchers ...

The object, which is around 33 feet long, was first spotted ... In 2020, astronomers identified another mini-moon, 2020 CD3, which orbited the Earth for over a year. This also will not be 2024 ...

NORFOLK, Va. — The Earth is getting a second moon! But it's only for about two months, and you won't be able to see it with the naked eye. The mini-moon, named "2024 PT5", was discovered back in ...