Earth can regularly capture asteroids and pull them into our orbit making them mini-moons. Asteroid 2024 PT5 was discovered this year, is about ~33 feet/ 10 meters wide, and follows a path similar to that of Earth’s mini-moon from 2022. Asteroid 2024 PT5 will be too small to see with binoculars or with home telescopes. Data shows that …
Bennu—discovered in 1999–is a small, near-Earth asteroid that passes close to Earth about every six years and is estimated to be about 4.5 billion-years-old. The 4.5 billion-year-old cup of asteroid dust will help researchers better understand how Earth and life formed based on characteristics like chemical composition. Experts believe that Bennu may contain organic molecules …