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Earth's 'second moon' is just visiting its cosmic parents for Thanksgiving

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Asteroid 2024 PT5 may have been born from material ejected from Earth 's moon .

The asteroid will leave Earth on Monday ( Nov. 25 ) when perturbations caused by the sun's gravity will disrupt its orbit.

The "mini-moon" asteroid originates from the Arjuna asteroid belt, a secondary asteroid belt made of space rocks.

Marcos is one of the authors of a new paper on 2024 PT5 and its characteristics accepted for publication in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics .

The paper is available on the preprint repository arXiv.com and is available online.

Rob Lea is a science journalist in the U.K ..

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