A chunk of space rock that visited near Earth's orbit last year was widely called a "mini-moon," a nickname that was more appropriate than thought.

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Earth gained a temporary mini-moon for a period of two months ... Initially captured in an elongated elliptical orbit, the Moon's path gradually became more circular, eventually locking into ...

This evidence, they write in a new paper, seems to point toward the mini-moon originating from the Moon ... by objects that might one day cross our path. With this information, they can hopefully ...

They occur almost every year. Earth had a mini-moon in 2022 thanks to the peculiar flight path of the 2022 YG asteroid. Another one arrived in 2020 courtesy of the 2020 CD3 asteroid. Some of them ...

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A small asteroid lingered close to our planet in its orbit around the Sun, temporarily caught by Earth’s gravity to become a far away mini-moon. A closer look at the space rock reveals a rather ...

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A small space rock that lingered near Earth last year and was referred to as its temporary “mini-moon” may actually be a chunk of the moon that chipped off thousands of years ago. The ...

While the space rocks largely originate from the main asteroid belt located between Mars and Jupiter, some have been created after impacts chipped off parts of the moon's surface.