Earth bids farewell to 'mini moon' asteroid set for return visit in 2055
Earth is parting company with an asteroid that's been tagging along as a “mini moon" for the past two months. The harmless ...
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Earth Bids Goodbye to Its ‘Mini-Moon’ as Astronomers Investigate Where Our Planet’s Asteroid Companion Came From
Preliminary research suggests asteroid 2024 PT5, which stuck around Earth for almost two months, has lunar origins ...
As Earth says goodbye to 'mini-moon,' asteroid's possible lunar origin revealed
Earth is saying goodbye to an asteroid that has been a "mini-moon" of sorts since late September, when it joined the planet's ...
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Earth's mini-moon has finally departed. Will it ever return as a 'second moon?'
Asteroid 2024 PT5 didn't stick around for Thanksgiving, but don't be sad. It will be back... but will it ever be a second ...
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Samples of 'alien' asteroid Ryugu are crawling with life — from Earth
Scientists have found microorganisms crawling over a sample retrieved from the 200 million-mile-distant asteroid Ryugu. But ...
Asteroids pass by each day. Luckily, large asteroid crashes are uncommon.
Every year, over 3,000 near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) are found by NASA's survey telescopes. With the use of more powerful and ...
Will NASA's Mission to $10 Quintillion Psyche Asteroid Make Us All Rich?
The asteroid 16 Psyche is theorized to contain $10,000,000,000,000,000,000 worth of valuable metals, including platinum and ...
NASA Issues Warning About 170-Foot Asteroid Heading Towards Earth at 47,644 KM/H
NASA issues a warning for a 170-ft asteroid heading towards Earth at 47,644 km/h. It will pass safely on Nov 24, but offers ...
A NASA probe is on its way to asteroid made of gold that's worth 100,000,000,000 trillion dollar
NASA’s Psyche mission, launched in October 2023, aims to explore a metal-rich asteroid worth $100,000 quadrillion, offering a ...