Earth’s newly captured mini-moon 2024 PT5 will depart in November, highlighting the fascination with transient asteroids.

On September 29, 2024, Earth captured a tiny asteroid named 2024 PT5, turning it into a temporary mini-moon. It won't be around much longer.

Brilliant Jupiter rises at 8:30 p.m. Nov. 1 and by twilight on Nov. 30. It can be found in the constellation Taurus at ...

The asteroid, named 2024 UQ1, measures approximately 32-feet across and will come closer to Earth than the moon.

Scientists call such phenomena mini-moons. The asteroid was found by a group called ATLAS, which stands for Asteroid ...

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When the world woke up on Sunday, Sept. 29, Earth had an extra moon. 2024 PT5, a Yale shuttle-sized Asteroid, will orbit Earth until late November. This new “mini-moon” is a wayward asteroid, a space ...

Earth gained a hidden second moon over the weekend, although it is set to disappear in several weeks. Nearing the end of ...

Asteroid 2024 PT5 is part of Arjuna, an asteroid belt consisting of space rocks that follow orbits around the sun very similar to that of Earth. "And for that reason, sometimes they remain briefly ...