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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Previous short-lived mini-moons were spotted in 1981 and 2022. Surprisingly, this asteroid is only about 33 feet in diameter. "When it gets close enough to Earth, we can actually start picking it ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Whether bona fide mini-moons or not ... They are primarily focused on finding near-Earth objects 460 feet across — those capable of annihilating a city. To date, about 11,000 such asteroids ...