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Earth will get an additional moon for the next two months. The little asteroid 2024 PT5 will circle our planet once before moving on.
2024 PT5 was created on August 7th using the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) discovered. It actually orbits the sun. He approaches the earth up to 568.500 kmits round-trip flight lasts from 29. September bis 25. November.
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Slow mini asteroid
The asteroid is only approximate 10 meters long and has a low relative speed between 7 and 1,580 km/h. 2024 PT5 is scheduled to fly past Earth again in 2025. With a distance of 1.8 million km but then it remains significantly further away.
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The asteroid was discovered by two researchers Complutense University of Madrid. The results of their research. As the two scientists report, the Earth regularly attracts small asteroids. So have 2006 Such an asteroid spent about a year in Earth orbit. Another stayed for several years and left its orbit 2020.
