What You Should Know About The Arrival of Earth's Second "Moon"
The object which is being referred to as a mini-moon is actually an asteroid with the name PT The gravitational pull of Earth has momentarily caught it From now until November when it will leave Earth's orbit and resume its journey through the solar system the small asteroid will stay in Earth's orbit nbsp In the scientific world this kind of incident is not unusual nbsp Every few years something similar occurs They remain for a few weeks or months before departing Reitzel stated that there are usually two to three of these incidents every ten years When the asteroid known as NX entered Earth's orbit in there was a mini-moon for the last time nbsp Nothing is disturbed by this at all Nothing in the solar system is at jeopardy nbsp Scientists at the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System ATLAS made the discovery of the asteroid in August The