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Earth’s Homemade Rocket Turned ‘Mini-Moon’ Is Back To Say Goodbye – Forbes
Every now and then, our planet’s gravity temporarily captures smaller celestial objects like asteroids and they become little “mini-moons” for a period.
Earth’s newest mini-moon is leaving us
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You know Earths main moon. Its hard to miss right now. But every now and then, our planets gravity temporarily captures smaller celestial objects like asteroids and they become little mini-moons for a period.
In February 2020, for just the second time, astronomers discovered a captured asteroid orbiting Earth, a mini-moon called 2020 CD3. Then, just a few months later, in September, it looked as though the third such mini-moon had been spotted.
The object…
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