Earth will be "borrowing" an extra moon for nearly two months starting this week. An Arjuna asteroid will become a "mini-moon" event ... it orbits the sun, just like the Earth does," Fisher ...

A second moon will drift into Earth’s orbit. Asteroid 2024 PT5 is poised to become a temporary mini moon of Earth ... than a bright moon. It will look more like an asteroid than a moon.

It sounds like something out of a science-fiction movie. For the past couple of weeks, Earth's orbit has been home to a "mini-moon" the ... X of what the asteroid's path will look like.

Despite predictions that the asteroid might become a temporary mini-moon whirling around Earth ... lunar rock samples,” Kareta said. “It looks like it hasn’t been in space for very long ...

The second type of episodes are short engagements in which the small body does ... Short mini-moon events like this forthcoming one, in which the small body (in this case an asteroid) acquires ...

While it was not born the way Earth’s moon ... “Asteroid 2024 PT5 will not describe a full orbit around Earth,” Marcos continued. “You may say that if a true satellite is like a customer ...

A BUS-SIZED "mini ... asteroid belt. These "Arjunas" follow Earth-like orbits, typically lasting about a year. The Asteroid 2024 PT5 is passing Earth at about "nine times" the distance of the Moon ...

Technically, the asteroid—like two of the past mini-moons—is a “temporarily ... specifically from the moon’s far side. “Just a brief look at the vast number of craters on the moon ...

A newly discovered house-size asteroid is set to make a close, yet harmless approach to Earth on May 21, passing within ...

Space scientists have worked out the shape of the asteroid set to smash into the Moon. Astronomers said the house-sized asteroid 2024 YR4 is shaped like a hockey puck and also deduced its origin.

A chunk of space rock that visited near Earth's orbit last year was widely referred to as a "mini-moon." Turns out the ... announcing the findings. “It looks like it hasn’t been in space ...