Second Moon Asteroid 2024 PT5 Approach Earth Countdown

✨ NASA scientists have calculated that Earth will capture a "second moon" on Sunday (Sept. 29). The "mini-moon" comes in the form of the tiny asteroid 2024 PT5, which usually orbits the sun as part of a small asteroid belt that follows Earth. 2024 PT5 is a near-Earth object roughly 11 meters (36 ft) in diameter discovered by ATLAS South Africa, Sutherland on August 7, 2024, the day before approaching Earth at 568,500 km (353,200 mi). The object orbits the Sun but makes slow close approaches to the Earth-Moon system. Between 29 September 2024 and 25 November 2024 (a period of 1 month and 27 days) it will pass just outside Earth's Hill sphere (roughly 0.01 AU (1.5 million km; 0.93 million mi)) at a low relative velocity (in the range 0.002 km/s (4.5 mph) - 0.439 km/s (980 mph)) and will become temporarily captured by Earth's gravity, with a geocentric orbital eccentricity of less than 1 and negative geocentric orbital energy. The closest approach to Earth in 2025 will be 9 January 2025 at roughly 1,800,000 km (1,100,000 mi) when it will have a relative velocity of 1.03 km/s (2,300 mph). It was last so near Earth around 11 February 2003 when it passed about 8,584,500 km (5,334,200 mi) from Earth.
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