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Earth gets a second moon
Posted: September 24 24, 8:43 am
by heyzeus
...but only for 57 days.
https://www.space.com/earth-mini-moon-asteroid-2024-pt5
This month, Earth will grab itself a second moon in the form of the tiny asteroid 2024 PT5.
Unlike the moon, Earth's primary companion which has accompanied our planet for around 4 billion years, this "new mini-moon" will stick around for just two months before it heads back to its home in an asteroid belt trailing our planet and orbiting the sun.
A team of scientists well-versed in the study of so-called "mini-moon events " identified the forthcoming gravitational capture event. They spotted the peculiar dynamic properties of 2024 PT5 as they routinely monitored newly discovered objects for potentially interesting behavior
Re: Earth gets a second moon
Posted: September 24 24, 9:14 am
by CardsofSTL
If it's not made of cheese and you can't look wistfully at it from the branch of a tree, it's not really a moon.
Mike Shannon would know that.
Re: Earth gets a second moon
Posted: September 24 24, 10:29 am
by IMADreamer
Hey! if the second moon was made of cheese would you eat it? I know I would.
Re: Earth gets a second moon
Posted: September 24 24, 11:12 am
by AdmiralKird
Meh. That's no moon, its more like a space station.
Re: Earth gets a second moon
Posted: September 24 24, 11:28 am
by mikechamp
AdmiralKird wrote: ↑September 24 24, 11:12 am
Meh. That's no moon, its more like a space station.
Now I know why there's been a run on tin foil lately.
(ducks)
Re: Earth gets a second moon
Posted: September 24 24, 12:04 pm
by Donnie Ebert
57 Days A Moon shall be the title of my overwrought and pretentious Pulitzer Prize winning novel.
Re: Earth gets a second moon
Posted: September 24 24, 5:46 pm
by obucard
Re: Earth gets a second moon
Posted: September 24 24, 6:19 pm
by JoeMcKim
I can't wait until Michael Bay makes a movie about this.
Re: Earth gets a second moon
Posted: September 25 24, 8:00 am
by Leroy
Unlike the moon, Earth's primary companion which has accompanied our planet for around 4 billion years, this "new mini-moon" will stick around for just two months before it heads back to its home in an asteroid belt trailing our planet and orbiting the sun.
Nobody likes a quitter.
