The Earth Is Getting a Mini-Moon—but Only for About a Month
On August 7, 2024, NASA’s Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) detected a space object that, for a little more than a month, will become a mini-moon of Earth. Named 2024 PT5, the rock is only 33 meters long and will form a kind of horseshoe-like orbit around Earth from September 29 to November 5 before leaving Earth’s orbit.
A ring could explain a mysterious arrangement of impact craters near the equator and might even have caused an ice age, ...
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Earth once wore a Saturn-like ring, study of ancient craters suggestsEarth may have had a giant ring of space rocks surrounding it, similar to those around Saturn, which could have led to ...
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Traces of Earth's earliest atmosphere could be buried on the MoonOur Earth is about 4.5 billion years old and, through careful work, scientists have pieced together a timeline of its past.
High in the Canadian wilderness, Smithsonian scientists search for ancient minerals that could explain the origins of the ...
Evidence suggests Earth had a ring system 466 million years ago, causing a surge in meteorite impacts and possibly ...
In a discovery that challenges our understanding of Earth's ancient history, researchers have found evidence suggesting that ...
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