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Goodnight moon! Astronomers snap photo of Earth's departing mini-moon
Astronomers used the Two-meter Twin Telescope to catch a "see-you-soon" image of the asteroid 2024 PT5 as it ended its stint ...
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Earth Bids Goodbye to Its ‘Mini-Moon’ as Astronomers Investigate Where Our Planet’s Asteroid Companion Came From
Preliminary research suggests asteroid 2024 PT5, which stuck around Earth for almost two months, has lunar origins ...
Earth's mini-moon has finally departed. Will it ever return as a 'second moon?'
Earth's recent "mini-moon" asteroid 2024 PT5 didn't stick around for Thanksgiving, but don't be sad. It will be back... but ...
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Earth To Temporarily Capture A 'Mini-Moon' - See An Orbit Animation
Earth captured asteroid 2024 PT5 back in September and expected to hold on to it till November according to Universidad ...
SpaceX adds 24 satellites to Starlink constellation with Tuesday night launch from NASA's KSC
The Space Force's 45th Weather Squadron had pegged the odds of favorable launch weather at greater than 95% at NASA's Kennedy ...
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Earth officially has two moons – Spanish university makes discovery of the year
Over the past few weeks, you’ve might have heard somewhere that Earth was about to get a second moon. Now it’s confirmed, ...
How this Washington space company is building rockets to fly, and fly again
Stoke is designing and building its rocket in Kent and test firing engine prototypes at Moses Lake in Central Washington.
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Washington Space Company Building Reusable Rockets
At a headquarters in Kent, Wash., engineers are assembling giant barrel-shaped sections of a rocket and two very different engines designed to make not just the booster but the upper stage of the ...