#minimoon — Public Fediverse posts
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Harvard’s Avi Loeb Says Earth's Temporary Mini-Moon Sar2901 May Not Be Of Natural Origin; Here’s Why
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1st May 2026 | New Delhi
A Full moon, seen through the tops of trees.
Buddh Poorinima in India & the first of the two Micro-Moon's in May 26. The next one is on 31st May (yaay). Could not make out the "mini-ness"
Around moon rise we could hear the call / song of an Indian Peafowl, Asian Koel, House Crows & a Brown-headed Barbet. Some dogs were barking too generally nothing to do with the moon
https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/micromoon-definition-full-moon-apogee/
#FullMoon #moon #newdelhi #night #birds #dogs #nature #astronomy #minimoon
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Harvard Astrophysicist Avi Loeb Believes Earth's New Quasi-Moon Has A Russian Connection From 1960; Here's Why
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A #MiniMoon that wasn't: the 'asteroid' 2025 US6 - https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K25/K25UL8.html, retracted in https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K25/K25UM3.html - has been swiftly ID'd as the Chinese lunar test satellite Distant Retrograde Orbit (DRO) B: https://groups.io/g/mpml/topic/115959056#msg41014. Here is its fun orbit around the Earth in an animation: https://bsky.app/profile/tony873004.bsky.social/post/3m44my3hgis24
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Astronomers just found a new mini moon following Earth. But it’s not what you think. This tiny cosmic tag-along has a strange secret orbit. Curious?
Read More: https://astronex.net/new-earth-mini-moon-asteroid-2025-pn7-discovered/
#SpaceDiscovery #MiniMoon #Asteroid2025PN7 #NASA #Astronomy #Space #Science #Mars #solarsystem #planets #Astrology #spaceexploration #esa #jameswebb #SpaceX #nature
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New entry of AI-generated #comics and #jokes added to our #website:
comics.lucentinian.com/3723
#LaughWithAI #DailyComedy #AIComedy #DailyLaughs #Comedy -
We've had the mini-moon for over a week, why aren't there any photos?
Stop slacking NASA
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Got any #astrology related implications to gaining a temporary #minimoon that would be fun to share?
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Reminder: We're (briefly) getting a new (mini) moon today!
"[T]he 10-meter-wide object, dubbed 2024 PT5 [...] will be some 1.5 million kilometers away [...] it will enter a curving, captive path around our world rather than slipping Earth’s surly bonds. At that point, 2024 PT5 will become another satellite of Earth—a so-called mini moon."
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/tiny-asteroid-will-briefly-become-earths-mini-moon/
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Of course, you won’t really be able to “say hello” without a professional telescope. At 33 feet long, the #MiniMoon is too mini for our eyes. Its closest approach is still 5X farther than our permanent, non-mini moon. That challenge, though, makes it all the more exciting that scientists are able to detect the tiny rock in the first place.
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For the next 2 months, an unusual object about the size of a bus will be orbiting above our heads. Say hello to Earth’s temporary new #MiniMoon.
Sept 29 – Nov 25, a passing #asteroid will be pulled in by Earth’s gravity before returning to its normal orbit around the sun. Objects that get captured by our gravitational force for a short time are known as mini-moons. Asteroid #2024PT5, came from the Arjuna asteroid belt near our sun, ~93M miles away.#astronomy #space
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/09/19/earth-second-mini-moon-asteroid/ -
"...an asteroid [2024 PT5 ] roughly the length of a city bus will be captured by Earth’s gravitational pull and orbit our planet for about 2 months, becoming a “mini moon”... from 29 September until 25 November before returning to its home, an asteroid belt revolving around the sun"
"The asteroid was discovered on 7 August by the Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System (Atlas), a Nasa-funded program"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/19/mini-moon-asteroid
#2024PT5 #asteroid #MiniMoon -
A Two-month #MiniMoon - 2024 PT5 Captured by Earth from September to November: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ad781f -> Discussion: https://groups.io/g/mpml/topic/107938458