Occasionally, asteroids get caught in Earth’s orbit, temporarily becoming mini moons before continuing their cosmic paths.

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Asteroid 2024 PT5, which almost became a temporary mini-moon to Earth, was recently found to be a broken-off part of the moon itself. This discovery has led scientists to believe there are many ...

Before concluding that 2024 PT5 was a fragment of the Moon, scientists needed to rule out the possibility that it was simply space debris, such as an old rocket part or a piece of human-made material.

During the occupation of asteroid 2024 PT5 around Earth, Space.com has been corresponding with one of the scientists who discovered its trajectory and its status as a mini-moon, Carlos de la ...

The mini-moon is officially known as asteroid 2024 PT5. After first joining up with Earth on Sept. 29, 2024, the mini-moon left its orbit around our planet at 10:43 a.m. EST (1543 GMT) on Monday ...

Including 2024 PT5, astronomers have identified five total mini-moons that were once captured by Earth, as radio astronomer Laura Nicole Driessen of the University of Sydney in Australia writes ...

In late September, 2024 PT5 would come within mini-moon range, or 2.8 million miles (4.5 million kilometers) from Earth, at about 2,200 miles per hour (3,540 kilometers per hour). But 2024 PT5 was ...

Additionally, 2024 PT5 itself is scheduled to make another close approach to Earth on January 9, 2025, providing NASA with an opportunity to study it using radar technology. After this quick flyby ...

2024 PT5 is only 33 feet wide, making it too small to see from Earth without a high-powered telescope. "The object is too small and dim for typical amateur telescopes and binoculars.

A new study reveals that the asteroid 2024 PT5, which has been orbiting Earth for 2 months, may have a "lunar origin." However, it is about to break free from our planet, making it tricky to tell ...

2024 PT5 is a near-Earth object roughly 36 ft in diameter discovered on 7 August 2024, when it was 353,200 miles from Earth. It's most recent approach to Earth was 8 August 2024 and flew past at ...