will Earth Get a Mini Moon for Two Months?
The moon will soon get a new partner a mini-moon that will get the Earth for two months. In a rare event, an asteroid will fall into Earth’s gravitational field, and this year it will revolve around the Earth from 29th September to 25th November.
An asteroid 2024 PT-5 (mini-moon) was seen with the help of ATLAS which is a NASA funded Asteroid impact Early Warning System, According to the report of the American Astronomical Society, This Asteroid is not very big Its diameter is only 10 meters (33 feet). During its rotation of 53 days around the Earth PT-5 (mini-moon), 2024 will not be able to complete its orbit, instead, it will form a Horseshoe-shaped loop before being torn apart by Earth’s gravitational pull.
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The RNAS report, Written by Carlos de la Fuente Marcos and Raul de la Fuente Marcos, states that Earth tends to Capture asteroids and pull them into its orbit. These asteroids sometimes make a more complete revolution around our Earth while other times, they diverge from Earth’s elliptical path before completing one orbit.
An asteroid Captured by Earth’s gravitational field revolved around Earth for a year from July 2006 to July 2007. However, the newly discovered 2024 PT5 appears to closely resemble the path of 2022 NX1, a transitory flyby that orbited the Earth in 1981 and 2022 without completing the orbit, and possibly another semi-circular orbit in 2051. Will come to orbit. Although Earth may occasionally draw space debris into its orbit, reports say is a natural object because “its short-term dynamic evolution is very similar to that of 2022 NX1, which is a certified natural object.” The report also indicates that its orbital properties resemble those of asteroids from the Arjuna asteroid belt.
