{"id":23516,"date":"2024-09-15T07:47:36","date_gmt":"2024-09-15T07:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=23516"},"modified":"2024-09-15T07:50:32","modified_gmt":"2024-09-15T07:50:32","slug":"earth-to-acquire-temporary-second-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2024\/09\/earth-to-acquire-temporary-second-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth to acquire temporary &#8216;second Moon&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; Two researchers from Complutense University of Madrid have revealed that a small space rock, named 2024 PT5, will temporarily enter Earth&#8217;s orbit before moving to another part of the solar system.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The asteroid, measuring about 10 meters in size, will be drawn into Earth&#8217;s gravitational pull later this month, reported Times of India<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Asteroid dynamics specialists Carlos and Raul M\u00e1rquez outlined how Earth periodically captures asteroids in its orbit.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">They calculated the trajectory of 2024 PT5 as it approaches Earth, with the object expected to make one complete orbit over 53 days before leaving in mid-November.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Although this phenomenon has occurred before, with asteroids orbiting Earth for extended periods, this latest discovery has garnered attention due to its timing and proximity.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The asteroid was first identified by the Asteroid Terrestrial Impact Last Alert System last month.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The asteroid will not pose any collision risk, according to earlier research, though it will remain in Earth\u2019s orbit due to its gravitational pull, earning the nickname &#8220;second small moon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h6 dir=\"ltr\"><em><strong>ENDS<\/strong><\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; Two researchers from Complutense University of Madrid have revealed that a small space rock, named 2024 PT5, will temporarily enter Earth&#8217;s orbit before moving to another part of the solar system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":23528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,194,982,351,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-world","category-international","category-science-technology","category-headline"],"views":67,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23516"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23525,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23516\/revisions\/23525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}