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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

Earth has temporarily captured a mini-moon, an asteroid now caught in Earth's gravitational pull. Named 2024 PT5, this tiny space rock was first spotted by astronomers in August 2024 and ...

The 2020 mini-moon was eventually identified as ... to X of what the asteroid's path will look like. 2024 PT5 has already been near Earth since July. During the event, the asteroid's geocentric ...

“When the speed of the asteroid is really low and the distance is really close, there's a higher chance of being captured by the Earth,” she said. This “mini-moon” emerged from an asteroid named 2024 ...

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

Earth has just gained a new ‘mini-moon’, which will orbit alongside our planet for the next two months. Known as 2024 PT5, this asteroid was caught by Earth's gravitational pull and will ...

But what makes 2024 PT5 so fascinating is that it now orbits Earth as a "mini moon" caught in our planet's gravitational pull. Earth's "second moon," however, won't be sticking around for long.