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Earth To Get A Comet, A Solar Eclipse, Aurora And A ‘Mini Moon’ This Week

This week see many special celestial sights, from a bright comet and a solar eclipse to a bright Venus and the possibility of aurora. There's even a new "mini" moon.

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Mini-moons like the one Earth just captured could be huge business opportunities

Asteroids are ripe for mining. Some contain gold or platinum. Others could help make rocket fuel. When they're mini-moons, that's a prime opportunity.

YAHOO!News · 7h

An asteroid known as a 'mini-moon' will join Earth's orbit for 2 months starting Sunday

A small asteroid will join Earth's orbit around the sun for two months beginning Sunday, becoming a 'mini-moon.'

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Moon O'Clock: NASA Pushes Ahead With Plans To Create Lunar Time Zone

The space agency is aiming to tackle time discrepancies caused by gravity as Artemis missions prepare for humankind's return ...

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Why Earth Gets A New Moon This Weekend — But Only For 57 Days

Technically a “temporarily captured object,” 2024 PT5 is a near-Earth asteroid and Earth’s newest mini-moon. This 11-meter ...

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Earth to get a second moon from September 29: How and where to see?

This autumn, Earth is about to get a second moon—a tiny asteroid named 2024 PT5—that will orbit the planet for about two ...

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Earth set to obtain ‘second moon’ tonight that won’t be seen again until 2055

Our planet is set to gain a second, 'mini-moon' tonight (29 September), which will stick around for a couple of months. It is ...

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