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Wiegert and his team calculated that 2024 YR4 could create a kilometre-wide crater on the moon – the largest lunar impact for at least the past 5000 years, though relatively small compared with ...

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.

Analysis of 2024 PT5's orbit showed it wasn't an errant piece of space junk. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech The asteroid is about 33 feet (10 meters) across and poses no danger to Earth.

An artist’s concept of an asteroid like the small near-Earth object 2024 PT5, whose orbit around the sun closely matches that of our planet and led to it being called a “mini-moon.” NASA/JPL ...

Asteroid 2024 PT5 will return in 2055, making a temporary and partial lap around Earth again. It's not the only mini moon to have visited Earth in the past.

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 ...

After this, astronomers will then have to wait a while for the next return of 2024 PT5, with its next close approach set for Nov. 8, 2055. At that time, the asteroid will make a slower approach, ...

Afterward, we won’t see 2024 PT5 make a close approach again until 2055. “Mini-moons come and go as they wish,” Marcos says to Space.com.

Earth is about to lose its tiny bonus moon. 2024 PT5, a 33-foot-wide asteroid that hung around Earth for two months, is expected to carry on with its journey through the cosmos this week. We'll ...