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Earth will get a 'mini second moon' this month

Earth will have a 'mini-moon' for nearly 2 months, researchers say. Here's what that means.

For nearly two months this year, Earth’s moon will have company — a second moon. Technically, it isn’t a second moon, but rather an asteroid from the Arjuna asteroid belt — named 2024 PT5 — that will be caught in the Earth’s gravitational pull,

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Earth has a new mini moon. Say hello before it disappears.

Say hello to Earth’s temporary new mini-moon. From Sept. 29 to Nov. 25, a passing asteroid will be pulled in by Earth’s gravity — sort of like a window shopper — before returning to its normal orbit around the sun.

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Asteroid to enter Earth's orbit temporarily: What to know about 'mini-moon'

The asteroid will orbit the Earth for about two months starting from Sept. 29. The Earth is getting a second moon for a limited time beginning the end of September. Asteroid will come close enough to Earth to temporarily enter its orbit at the end of the month,

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Temporary ‘Mini-Moon’ Will Begin Orbit Around Earth Next Week: What To Know

Earth will temporarily get a second moon next week when a tiny asteroid begins its two month orbit around the planet, though ...

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Stadium-sized asteroid that passed by Earth this week will return: NASA

UNDATED (WKRC) - A stadium-sized asteroid that passed by Earth this week will return, according to NASA. PEOPLE reported that ...

A $5 Billion NASA Mission Looked Doomed. Could Engineers Save It?

Weeks before Europa Clipper was to be shipped for launch, scientists discovered a potentially fatal flaw that might endanger ...

'Spiders' on Mars? NASA scientists recreate mysterious Red Planet formations

Dubbed "araneiform terrain," the Mars surface formations span over a half-mile long and have hundreds of branches that ...

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The Searchers

Dave Eggers is the author of “The Circle,” “What Is the What” and, most recently, “The Eyes and the Impossible,” winner of ...

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Work is underway on NASA's next-generation asteroid hunter

The mirrors for NASA's Near-Earth Object Surveyor space telescope are being installed and aligned, and work on other ...

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NASA issues alert for stadium sized asteroid passing earth Tuesday

The NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory has issued alerts for five asteroids approaching earth. One asteroid is described as ...

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47-year-old Voyager 1 spacecraft just fired up thrusters it hasn’t used in decades

Engineers have mitigated an issue with Voyager 1’s thrusters, enabling the mission to stay in touch with mission controllers on Earth and send back unique data.

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NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory Unveils Role of Wildfires and Logging in Amazon Carbon Emissions Using LiDAR Drones

A NASA-led study using drones with LiDAR has found that rainforest carbon emissions are mostly due to wildfires, storms, and ...

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Gargantuan black hole jets are biggest seen yet

Astronomers have spotted the biggest pair of black hole jets ever seen, spanning 23 million light-years in total length. That ...

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Volcanoes may help reveal interior heat on Jupiter moon

By staring into the hellish landscape of Jupiter's moon Io—the most volcanically active location in the solar system—Cornell ...

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Earth Is Getting a Second Moon – Here’s What’s Causing This Odd Phenomenon

Earth is about to get a “second moon,” but it’s not staying around forever. Where Does The Second Moon Come From? There’s a scene in Star Wars: A New Hope, the first released film in the franchise, ...

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