NASA's mini rover team is packed for lunar journey
Three small NASA rovers that will explore the lunar surface as a team have been packed up and shipped from the agency's Jet ...
Earth’s temporary mini-moon might have actually been a piece of the Moon
New research suggests that Earth's recent mini-moon might have originated as part of our actual moon long, long ago.
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Earth’s recent ‘mini-moon’ may be an actual piece of the moon, astronomers say
An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an impact thousands of years ago.
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Remember the 'mini-moon' last year? Study finds it was likely just a chunk of the actual moon
The "mini-moon" designation, which is used to refer to ... The asteroid, known as 2024 PT5, was first spotted Aug. 7 by astronomers using the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert ...
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NASA's moon mission hopes boosted as scientists uncover 'violent' phenomenon
A pair of huge canyons on the Moon's far side were created when an asteroid passed over the lunar south pole and then slammed ...
Earth’s Mini-Moon Mystery Solved: It’s a Chunk of the Moon
For a brief, but exciting, time last year, Earth had two moons. A small asteroid lingered close to our planet in its orbit ...
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Earth's mini-moon was the moon all along
studying it could lend insights into cratering processes on the pockmarked lunar surface," said the NASA release. "Mini-moon" is a misnomer for 2024 PT5 because it approached the Earth from the ...
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Earth’s Mini-Moon Was Probably a Piece of Its Real Moon
On Aug. 16, Dr. Kareta and his colleagues spied the object with the Lowell Discovery Telescope in Arizona and the NASA Infrared Telescope ... really be called a mini-moon, as it never entered ...
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Two of the Moon’s Grand Canyons Were Formed in Just Ten Violent Minutes, New Study Suggests
Scientists say Vallis Schrödinger and Vallis Planck—dramatic trenches near the lunar south pole—were carved in a blast that ...
Grand Canyons on the Moon Were Made in a Matter of Minutes
Scientists proposed an explanation for the formation of Vallis Schrödinger and Vallis Planck near the lunar south pole, which ...
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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin mimics the moon’s gravity for NASA experiments during spaceflight
Jeff Bezos’ rocket company gave NASA a brief taste of the moon’s gravity Tuesday, without straying too far from home. Blue Origin launched the 29 lunar technology experiments to the edge of ...
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Earth's mini-moon was the moon all along
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