Earth to capture a 'second moon' this weekend, NASA says
Earth will capture a miniature, "second moon" this week, according to NASA scientists. The new moon is actually a tiny asteroid dubbed 2024 PT5. It will start orbiting the planet in a horseshoe path and stick around for a little less than two months before escaping Earth's gravitational pull and going back to its regular orbit around the sun.
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Scientists call such phenomena mini-moons. The asteroid was found by a group called ATLAS, which stands for Asteroid ...
First came the surprising discovery that Earth’s atmosphere is leaking. But for roughly 60 years, the reason remained a ...
From these indirect observations, scientists have calculated that the scorchingly hot inner core, with temperatures ...
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BBC Studios and Samsung TV Plus, Samsung’s free, ad-supported streaming TV (FAST) service, announce today the launch of FAST ...
A series of radar images taken by Nasa has revealed that a large asteroid which zoomed past Earth last week was actually two ...
Our planet is set to gain a second, 'mini-moon' tonight (29 September), which will stick around for a couple of months. It is ...
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