As of yesterday afternoon, Earth has two natural moons! Kinda! And not for long! badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/earth-has-... 🔭🧪

Earth has a second moon! Sorta!

The asteroid 2024 PT5 will orbit Earth for about two months before unmooning us

New Moon on Monday! 😎 (h/t @lchupacabra.bsky.social)

a close up of a man 's face with bbc four written on the bottom right

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Huh, didn't know the Vera C Rubin mirror was cast in one piece. I assume it's very thin with a zillion actuators behind it to ensure it keeps shape

Two moons for two moons.

The new moon, called 2024 PT5, is a small asteroid about 10 meters across, and many hundreds of thousands of kilometers from us, so it's far too small to see without a powerful telescope. But it's still a cool story, and shows how space is weirder than you think. 😀

"moon" seems kinda strong for something that size?

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