Earth, as noticed from the Moon in 1968, can have pulled a brand new mini-moon into its gravity.
Corbis by way of Getty PicturesWe can have a brand new house neighbor, a minimum of for some time. Astronomers on the NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey (CSS) reckon they have got noticed an asteroid that is stuck in Earth’s gravity.
“Earth has a brand new briefly captured object/Conceivable mini-moon referred to as 2020 CD3. At the evening of Feb. 15, my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Teddy Pruyne and I discovered a 20th magnitude object,” Kacper Wierzchos tweeted Tuesday.
BIG NEWS (thread third). Earth has a brand new briefly captured object/Conceivable mini-moon referred to as 2020 CD3. At the evening of Feb. 15, my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Teddy Pruyne and I discovered a 20th magnitude object. Listed here are the invention photographs. %.twitter.com/zLkXyGAkZl
— Kacper Wierzchos (@WierzchosKacper) February 26, 2020
He reckoned the asteroid has a diameter of between 1.nine – three.five miles, and is the second one identified to orbit Earth (the former one was once found out via CSS in 2006).
CSS did not in an instant reply to a request for remark.
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