Earth’s moon getting a Mini-Me starting Sunday
WASHINGTON — Earth’s moon will soon have some company — a “mini moon.” The mini moon is actually an asteroid about the size of a school bus at 33 feet. When it whizzes by Earth on Sunday, it will be temporarily trapped by our planet’s gravity and orbit the globe — but only for about two months.
Asteroid 2024 DW flew about 139,000 miles (224,000 km) away from Earth. The space rock was estimated to be about 43 feet wide ...
The mini-moon, nicknamed 2024 PTS, will orbit the Earth in a horseshoe pattern before the gravity of other objects in our ...
Around the world in 57 days. A new moon is expected to be pulled into the Earth’s orbit by the end of September, but the ...
For decades, astronomers have seen the "before" and "after" of this process — when a planet is orbiting very close to its ...
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