Good morning, we have a new moon! www.scientificamerican.com/article/tiny...@leebillings.bsky.social 🧪🔭

Meet Earth’s New Mini Moon

A small asteroid, 2024 PT5, will spend the next two months alongside our planet as a mini moon before swooping back to deep space

this mornings unprecedented solar eclipse is no cause for alarm. We got it covered.

"Mom, how long can he stay?"

I have to insist bsky.app/profile/jjbi...

I'm curious--if we lower our estimates on minimum size, isn't this likely happening every day? Not to say its not cool that we can now detect it....

Amazing 👏

Looking forward to a dual solar eclipse!🌛🌛

Where is mini mooooon? 🧐

I love it! Ima pretend it’s the little moon I saw in my morning sky today. T

The orbital similarities between mini moons and our own planet have sparked speculations that some of these objects might be artificial in nature. And indeed, sometimes this is the case... "1991 VG" was... suspected to be a space-age artifact—or even an Earth-surveilling alien probe.

a cartoon illustration of the earth with a smiling face and a ghost in the background

Alt: Earth and the moon moves as an asteroid moves out of the way, then moves back.