{"id":792057,"date":"2024-12-17T10:26:06","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T15:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=792057"},"modified":"2024-12-17T10:26:06","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T15:26:06","slug":"earth-had-a-temporary-mini-moon-that-was-a-chunk-of-the-real-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=792057","title":{"rendered":"Earth had a temporary mini-moon that was a chunk of the real moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"ArticleImage\">\n<div class=\"Image__Wrapper\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">There may be more moon-born asteroids near Earth than we thought<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">ESA\/P.Carril<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>A huge rock orbiting near Earth appears to have originated from the moon, the second such object known to exist, with maybe more than a dozen awaiting discovery.<\/p>\n<p>The asteroid, called 2024 PT5, is about 10 metres wide. Spotted in August, it was later snared by Earth\u2019s gravitational pull, becoming a second moon of our planet, referred to as a mini-moon, between September and November.<\/p>\n<p>Re-examining the asteroid, Teddy Kareta at Lowell Observatory\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2461106-earth-had-a-temporary-mini-moon-that-was-a-chunk-of-the-real-moon\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=space&#038;rand=772163\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There may be more moon-born asteroids near Earth than we thought ESA\/P.Carril A huge rock orbiting near Earth appears to have originated from the moon, the second such object known&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":792058,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-792057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-scientist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=792057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/792058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=792057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=792057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=792057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}