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A bus-sized asteroid that drifted near Earth last year may have been a lunar mini-moon.
The asteroid passed safely at 1.1 million miles ( roughly five times the Moon ’s distance) Researchers analyzed the surface of 2024 PT5 using the Lowell Discovery Telescope in Arizona and the Infrared Telescope Facility in Hawaii .
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