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Earth's Second Moon Is Actually A Near-Earth Asteroid That Came From A Crater On The Far Side Of Our Planet's Original Moon
The Earth has a "second moon," and it appears to have originated from the original moon. This additional moon is a near-Earth asteroid called 2016 HO3, or Kamo'oalewa, which means "oscillating ...
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We will call it mini-moon. All about Earth temporary second moon, asteroid 2024 PT5
The Earth will gain a second, mini-moon on Sept. 29, but it won't stick around too long, USA TODAY reports. The asteroid 2024 PT5 is expected to escape Earth's orbit on Nov. 25 and be pulled ...
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Asteroid's odds of hitting the Moon have now more than doubled
The latest probability of impact for asteroid 2024 YR4, as of June 3, 2025, at 4.3 per cent of striking the Moon on December ...
NASA Raises Odds of Asteroid Smacking the Moon in 2032
YR4, which previously posed the highest impact risk to Earth ever recorded, has now been assessed a slightly higher chance of ...
‘It would be spectacular’: Asteroid that was headed for earth may hit the moon instead
YR4 was one of the highest-risk asteroids identified in the last 25 years. There’s a 4.3 per cent chance it hits the moon.
Could an asteroid hit the moon? Odds rise after NASA's Webb examines YR4. The projections
Earth is perfectly safe from a menacing asteroid known as 2024 YR4 that is big enough to level a city, but the moon? Not so ...
Chinese Probe Sends First Picture From Space As It Heads Toward Earth's 'Quasi Moon'
China has released the first picture sent by its Tianwen-2 mission spacecraft which launched on May 28. While on its way to ...
China extends its reach into the Solar System with launch of asteroid mission
Tianwen, which means "questions to heaven," is the name given to China's program of robotic Solar System exploration. Tianwen ...