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Earth’s Second ‘Moon’ Will Take a Final Lap Before Waving Bye-Bye to Us For Good – ScienceAlert
Godspeed, SO 2020. Enjoy your journey around the sun.
Earth’s second moon will make a close approach to the planet next week before drifting off into space, never to be seen again.
“What second moon,” you ask? Astronomers call it2020 SO
a small object that dropped into Earth’s orbit about halfway between our planet and the moon in September 2020. Temporary satellites like these are known as minimoons, though calling it a moon is a bit deceptive in this case; in December 2020, NASA researchers learned that the object isn’t a space rock at all, but…
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