The small asteroid named 2024 PT5 will become a temporary mini moon of Earth from September ... with objects within 4.7 million miles (7.5 million kilometres) classified as potentially hazardous.
The asteroid was discovered in August and is set to become a mini-moon, revolving around Earth ... it will orbit our planet — but only for 56.6 days. While other non-Earth objects, or NEOs ...
A new paper suggests asteroid 2024 PT 5 will become ... to classify as a mini-moon. Unfortunately not. It's extremely small, and not very bright. At around 27.6 magnitude, it's too dim ...
The ‘mini-moon’ 2024 PT5 will orbit Earth from ... the dimmest objects visible to the naked eye at night have a magnitude of around 6.5, and a 12-inch telescope can detect objects with a ...