Phil PlaitAs of yesterday afternoon, Earth has two natural moons!
Kinda! And not for long!
https://badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/earth-has-a-second-moon-sorta
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. 😀
Tom Fakes (he/him)@badastro The prophecy's of the great Duran's are fulfilled with the announcement of this New Moon on Monday.