Tag: second moon
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Earth’s (Temporary) Second Moon! Asteroid 2024 PT5
Today we are finally going to take a look at Earth’s second moon or at least our temporary second moon, asteroid 2024 PT5. In a recent previous piece, I talked about some of the classes of near-earth objects, like the Apollonian asteroids, the Aten group and more. There are a few objects that go around…
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Some Types of Near Earth Objects.
Today we are going to take another look at asteroids, focusing on a couple of particular subgroups of them. In a recent piece we looked broadly at comets and asteroid, as minor planets or small solar system bodies, as two groups that almost blend into each other. Today, we’re going to be looking at a…
