Earth will soon pick up a new 'mini-moon' but it won't be here for …
WEB1 day ago · However, de la Fuente Marcos and de la Fuente Marcos state in their paper: "The object is unlikely to be artificial as its short-term dynamical evolution closely resembles that of 2022 NX1, a ...
Earth will get a second "mini-moon" for 2 months this year - CBS News
WEB1 day ago · The study's lead author Carlos de la Fuente Marcos told Space.com the mini-moon will be too small to ... Caitlin O'Kane is a New York City journalist who works on the CBS News social media team as ...
What you need to know about Earth’s new, temporary mini-moon
WEB1 day ago · The object is part of the Arjuna asteroid belt. Speaking to Space.com, Universidad Complutense de Madrid professor Carlos de la Fuente Marcos — one of the people who discovered the mini-moon ...
'Mini-moon' to join Earth's orbit for nearly 2 months, study finds
WEB1 day ago · An Arjuna asteroid will become a "mini-moon" event for nearly two months starting Sept. 29, according to a study published in the journal Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society. The ...
Earth is set to have another Moon in its orbit — what that means ...
WEB1 day ago · Researchers Carlos de la Fuente Marcos and Raúl de la Fuente Marcos explained the event in the journal "Research Notes of the AAS," writing, “Earth can regularly capture asteroids from the Near ...
A Two-month Mini-moon: 2024 PT - IOPscience
WEBSep 10, 2024 · Therefore, 2024 PT 5 is a transient co-orbital of the horseshoe type like 1991 VG (C. de la Fuente Marcos & R. de la Fuente Marcos 2018) or 2022 NX 1 (C. de la Fuente Marcos & R. de la Fuente Marcos 2022; R. de la Fuente Marcos et al. 2023). In the figure, we show the evolution of the nominal …
'Second moon' to orbit Earth for two months - study | GMA News …
WEB1 day ago · Carlos de la Fuente Marcos and Raul de la Fuente Marcos, the authors of the study, explained that near-Earth objects (NEOs) that approach the planet at close range may undergo “mini-moon” events in which they pass by without completing one revolution around Earth. ... —VBL, GMA Integrated News. Tags: second moon, asteroid, earth. Most ...
Earth will have a 'mini-moon' for nearly 2 months, researchers say ...
WEB1 day ago · Researchers said the mini-moon will take place from Sept. 29 until Nov. 25. Paul Chodas, director of the Center for Near Earth Object Studies at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, told the New ...
Earth will get another moon this month — but not for long!
WEB3 days ago · Marcos explained that in order to become a mini-moon, an incoming body has to approach Earth at a close range of around 2.8 million miles (4.5 million km) and slowly at about 2,200 mph (3,540 km/h).
Earth may be gaining a temporary moon - The Week
WEB3 days ago · "Every time an object with an orbit so earthlike is discovered, there is a chance that we are just recovering space debris," Raúl de la Fuente Marcos, an astronomer at the Complutense University ...
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