Earth’s Mini-Moon Mystery Solved: It’s a Chunk of the Moon
For a brief, but exciting, time last year, Earth had two moons. A small asteroid lingered close to our planet in its orbit around the Sun, temporarily caught by Earth’s gravity to become a far away ...
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The Moon
The Moon is a lot smaller and closer to Earth than the Sun. The Moon orbits close orbitAn orbit is a regular, repeating path that one object in space takes around another one. the Earth.
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Earth’s recent ‘mini-moon’ may be an actual piece of the moon, astronomers say
Kareta and members of his team at Lowell Observatory, who study near-Earth asteroids on close orbits, were already observing the object before anyone dubbed it a potential mini-moon. To ensure ...
How NASA's Lunar Trailblazer will make a looping voyage to the moon
Before arriving at the moon, the small satellite mission will use the gravity of the sun, Earth, and moon over several months ...
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Earth’s Mini-Moon Was Probably a Piece of Its Real Moon
By Becky Ferreira For a few months last fall, a school-bus-size space rock named 2024 PT5 gained fame as Earth’s new “mini-moon ... of really near-Earth orbits,” said Teddy Kareta ...