Could This Asteroid Be a Lost Chunk of the Moon?
PT5, a near-Earth object discovered last year, has captivated scientists with its potential lunar origins. Likely ejected ...
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NASA’s Lucy mission will continue its journey to explore the Jupiter Trojan asteroids, which share Jupiter’s orbit around the ...
Are we all aliens? NASA’s returned asteroid samples hold the ingredients of life from a ...
NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned 122 grams of dust and pebbles from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, delivering the sample ...
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Earth’s recent ‘mini-moon’ may be an actual piece of the moon, astronomers say
However, this almost-mini-moon is still special as it is potentially ... suggested that the object is part of the Arjuna asteroid belt, which is made of small asteroids that have orbits around ...
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NASA's returned asteroid samples reveal building blocks for life
NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned the samples from Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid, in 2023. It's the biggest cosmic haul ...
School bus-sized asteroid found to be fragment of the Moon
In August 2024, the ATLAS telescope in South Africa discovered asteroid 2024 PT5, a ten-meter-wide space rock roughly the ...
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Was asteroid 2024 PT5 ejected from moon? Here's what scientists have to say
This asteroid originated from the Arjuna asteroid belt, a collection of space rocks sharing similar orbits with Earth ... Now, with the discovery of 2024 PT5, the number of asteroids originating from ...