During that collision, a big chunk flew off the Earth and into its orbit and became the Moon. This animation from NASA shows a simulation of how our Moon was formed during the collision.

The problem again is the size of things. In my animation, not only are the objects too big but the orbital radius of the moon around Earth is way too big. I had to supermagnify the trajectories so ...

Space.com House-Size Asteroid Zips Between Earth And Moon In Orbit Animation I SPACE.COM Posted: August 1, 2024 | Last updated: December 31, 2024 Asteroid 2022 FB2 flew about 93,000 miles away ...

There's no tricks involved, just the moon wobbling in its orbit around the Earth, McCarthy wrote on Reddit, where he shared the video as an animation on July 24. Looking for a telescope to see the ...

Over time, it cooled and clumped into a single massive body—the moon. That impact didn’t just create a satellite; it helped define Earth’s structure, tilt, and rotation. Clues about this ...

Earth captured asteroid 2024 PT5 back in September ... de Madrid professor Carlos de la Fuente Marcos. See an orbit animation of the estimated 37 foot wide space rock from NASA's Jet Propulsion ...

But as a mini-moon, Asteroid 2024 PT5 isn’t in any danger of colliding with Earth now or over the next few decades, de la Fuente Marcos said. The space rock will orbit about 2.6 million miles (4 ...

The Moon has long been the Earth's close companion, but researchers have struggled to understand exactly when the moon formed, because tiny crystals in the moon rocks brought home by astronauts ...