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  2. Claimed moons of Earth - Wikipedia

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    In 1898, Hamburg scientist Dr. Georg Waltemath announced that he had located a system of tiny moons orbiting Earth. [11] [12]: 146 He had begun his search for secondary moons based on the hypothesis that something was gravitationally affecting the Moon's orbit.

  3. What you need to know about Earth's new, temporary mini-moon

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    The mini-moon will be small — 33 feet long — and dim. NASA uses magnitude to describe brightness in space. A 6.5 magnitude is generally the dimmest object the human eye can see.

  4. Earth about to pull tiny space rock into its orbit as ... - AOL

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    A small asteroid will be pulled into orbit around the Earth as a “mini-moon” later this month before the space rock departs into other parts of the solar system.. The 10m-wide asteroid, dubbed ...

  5. 2020 CD3 - Wikipedia

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    2020 CD 3 (also CD3 for short) [11] [12] is a tiny near-Earth asteroid (or minimoon) that ordinarily orbits the Sun but makes close approaches to the EarthMoon system, in which it can temporarily enter Earth orbit through temporary satellite capture (TSC).

  6. Earth’s recent ‘mini-moon’ may be an actual piece of the moon ...

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    A small space rock that lingered near Earth last year and was referred to as its temporary “mini-moon” may actually be a chunk of the moon that chipped off thousands of years ago.

  7. Moonlet - Wikipedia

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    A moonlet, minor moon, minor natural satellite, or minor satellite is a particularly small natural satellite orbiting a planet, dwarf planet, or other minor planet. Up until 1995, moonlets were only hypothetical components of Saturn's F-ring structure, but in that year, the Earth passed through Saturn's ring plane.

  8. New 'mini-moon' orbiting Earth — for now, astronomers say - AOL

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    A visiting mini-moon is circling Earth, according to astronomers who discovered the cosmic squatter in our planet's orbit. New 'mini-moon' orbiting Earth — for now, astronomers say Skip to main ...

  9. Moons of Pluto - Wikipedia

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    The orbits of the moons are confirmed to be circular and coplanar, with inclinations differing less than 0.4° and eccentricities less than 0.005. [16] The discovery of Nix and Hydra suggested that Pluto could have a ring system. Small-body impacts could eject debris off of the small moons which can form into a ring system.