Earth’s newly captured mini-moon 2024 PT5 will depart in November, highlighting the fascination with transient asteroids.

For the past couple of weeks, Earth's orbit has been home to a "mini-moon" the size of a city bus. The celestial object is ...

On September 29, 2024, Earth captured a tiny asteroid named 2024 PT5, turning it into a temporary mini-moon. It won't be around much longer.

Asteroid 2024 PT5 was identified on August 7 of this year ... asteroid 2006 RH120, which was the second moon of Earth from ...

A second moon joined the Earth's orbit on Sunday, September 29 th. The ‘mini moon’ is actually a small asteroid, the size of a school bus, that is known as 2024 PT5. This solar rock has ...

It's here to stay, or at least until Thanksgiving week. But it's not a moon. In fact, it's an asteroid named 2024 PT5. It entered Earth's orbit on Sept. 29 and will be taking up residency in our ...

(Photo by Gary Hershorn/Getty Images) The eleventh and penultimate full moon of 2024 and the second of fall in the northern hemisphere, the “Beaver Moon”— also known as the “Frost Moon” and the ...

But a second moon? No, that's a new one ... It's not a moon, but rather, the tiny asteroid known as 2024 PT5, according to Space.com. It's also sometimes referred to as a "mini-moon." ...

When the world woke up on Sunday, Sept. 29, Earth had an extra moon. 2024 PT5, a Yale shuttle-sized Asteroid, will orbit Earth until late November. This new “mini-moon” is a wayward asteroid, a space ...