Earthing bids goodbye to the “mini moon” set of asteroids for the return visit in 2055

• The planet Earth farewells a “mini moon”, an harmless asteroid named 2024 PT5, which has been dragging the earth for two months and will leave on Monday, far from the stronger gravitational attraction of the sun.
• For the first time in August, the asteroid began its brief gravitational interaction with the earth at the end of September.
• After his departure, the asteroid should not come back near the earth before 2055.

The planet Earth separates from an asteroid that has marked as a “mini moon” in the past two months.

The harmless space rock will take off on Monday, surmounted by the strongest tug of the gravity of the sun. But he will get closer for a quick visit in January.

NASA will use a radar antenna to then observe the 33 -foot asteroid. This should deepen the understanding of the scientists of the object known as 2024 PT5, most likely a rock which was unleashed from the moon by an impacting asteroid and forming craters.

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Although it is not technically a moon – NASA stresses that it has never been captured by the gravity of the earth and entirely in orbit – it is “an interesting object” worthy of study.

A supermoon with a partial lunar eclipse rises above Lake Michigan in Chicago, September 17, 2024. Planet Earth separated from an asteroid that has marked like a “mini moon” for two months. (AP photo / Kiichiro Sato, file)

The astrophysician brothers who identified the “mini moon behavior” of the asteroid, Raul and Carlos of the Fuente Marcos of the compluten university of Madrid, have so far collaborated with telescopes in the Canary Islands for hundreds of observations.

Currently more than 2 million kilometers, the object is too small and weak to see without a powerful telescope. It will also spend almost 1.1 million miles of land in January, maintaining a safety distance before it zoom further in the solar system while orbiting the sun, so as not to return before 2055. It is almost five times further than the moon.

The NASA logo is displayed at the NASA headquarters in Washington, DC, June 21, 2023. (Stefani Reynolds / AFP via Getty Images)

Spotted for the first time in August, the asteroid began its semi-jogging around the earth at the end of September, after being under the handles of the gravity of the earth and followed an iron-like path.

As he returns next year, he will play too quickly – more than double his speed from September – to drag, said Raul of Fuente Marcos.

The decreasing gibbous moon is seen on June 8, 2023 in New York. (Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images)

NASA will follow the asteroid for more than a week in January using the radar antenna of the Goldstone solar system in the Mojave desert in California, which is part of the network of deep spaces.

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The current data suggest that during its visit in 2055, the asteroid surrounding the sun will again make a temporary and partial turn around the earth.