Asteroid 2024 PT5's Mini-Moon Orbit

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A space rock is about to become Earth’s new ‘mini-moon’ | CNN

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Asteroid 2024 PT5 will orbit Earth from September 29 to November 25 .

The space rock could be anywhere between 16 and 138 feet ( 5 and 42 meters ) in diameter.

Asteroids that become mini-moons come within 2.8 million miles ( 4.5 million kilometers ) of Earth at speeds under 2,237 miles per hour ( 3,600 kilometers per hour ) Asteroids such as Asteroid 2020 CD3 are considered a long-capture mini-moon.

Asteroid 2024 PT5 might be about 10 meters in diameter, making it the largest captured object discovered to-date.

The space rock is expected to make a close flyby of Earth from 1.1 million miles ( 1.7 million kilometers ) away on January 9, 2025 , before “leaving the neighborhood of Earth shortly afterwards, until its next return in 2055 ,” the study says.

Asteroids can also be asteroids that come from the main asteroid belt or fragments of the lunar surface launched by asteroid impacts millions of years ago .

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