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A New Mini-Moon Was Found Orbiting Earth. There Will Be More. by Rebecca Boyle, The New York Times, 27 Feb 2020; Gemini Telescope Images "Minimoon" Orbiting Earth — in Color! Archived 10 August 2020 at the Wayback Machine, OIR Laboratory press release, 27 Feb 2020; Looks like Earth has a new natural moon by Deborah Byrd, EarthSky, 26 Feb 2020
Asteroids are ripe for mining. Some contain gold or platinum. Others could help make rocket fuel. When they're mini-moons, that's a prime opportunity.
Earth's new mini-moon will orbit Earth for only 2 months. During the object's visit, Teddy Kareta, an astronomer at Lowell Observatory in Arizona, was among those who sought to catch a glimpse of ...
Tom van Flandern: "Dark Matter, Missing Planets & New Comets. Paradoxes resolved, origins illuminated" , North Atlantic Books 1993, ISBN 1-55643-155-4 Joseph Ashbrook: "The Many Moons of Dr Waltemath" , Sky and Telescope, Vol 28, Oct 1964, p. 218, also on pp. 97–99 of "The Astronomical Scrapbook" by Joseph Ashbrook, Sky Publ. Corp. 1984, ISBN ...
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The object orbits the Sun but makes slow close approaches to the Earth–Moon system. Between 29 September (19:54 UTC) and 25 November 2024 (16:43 UTC) (a period of 1 month and 27 days) [4] it passed just outside Earth's Hill sphere (roughly 0.01 AU [1.5 million km; 0.93 million mi]) at a low relative velocity (in the range 0.002 km/s (4.5 mph) – 0.439 km/s [980 mph]) and became temporarily ...
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.
Minecraft: Story Mode, an episodic spin-off game developed by Telltale Games in collaboration with Mojang, was announced in December 2014. [8] [9] [10] Consisting of five episodes plus three additional downloadable episodes, the standalone game is a narrative and player choice-driven, and it was released on Windows, OS X, iOS, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, and Xbox One via download ...