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Astronomers spot hidden ‘mini-moon’ orbiting Earth for decades
Astronomers have made an astounding discovery, finding a new ‘moon’, or quasi-moon, that has been following Earth for over ...
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Astronomers discover new quasi-moon orbiting the Earth
For more than sixty years, a tiny asteroid has been moving in step with Earth, hidden from view until recently. Astronomers now confirm that this small body, named 2025 PN7, is traveling in a special ...
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Astronomers Find A New ‘Moon’ That’s Been Following Earth Since the 1960s
A team of astronomers has confirmed the presence of a new quasi-moon, named 2025 PN7, which has been following Earth’s orbit undetected for over 60 years. The discovery, published in the Research ...
This story was updated to add new information. The Earth will soon have a second mini-moon, although it will be a brief visit. Scientists wrote about the mini-moon and its anticipated orbit around ...
2025-PN7 is around 62 feet (19 meters) wide, and it’s between 2.8 million miles and 37.2 million miles away from Earth. It ...
A small asteroid will be pulled into orbit around the Earth as a “mini-moon” later this month before the space rock departs into other parts of the solar system. The 10m-wide asteroid, dubbed 2024 PT5 ...
A new moon is expected to be pulled into the Earth’s orbit by the end of September, but the rare phenomenon won’t last long. The visiting moon is technically an asteroid known as 2024 PT5, and was ...
Earth will have an extra moon for a couple of weeks this fall, and it may return for a second round in a few decades. A 33-foot asteroid named 2024 PT5 is expected to be pulled into orbit around the ...
The moon will soon be joined by a new dance partner around the Earth's gravitational pull. But its new pal will stay for only a song or two before returning to the dark of the night. An asteroid, ...
SPACE (KXAN) — Earth is picking up a new moon later this week. This mini-moon is about 33 feet across, the size of a small school bus, and will orbit the Earth from Sept. 29 to Nov. 25. “We don’t know ...
A total lunar eclipse of the full Corn Moon will occur on Sept 7, turning the Moon red in skies over Europe, Africa, Asia & ...
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