The Discovery and Characterization of Minimoon 2024 PT5
Minimoons are asteroids that become temporarily captured by the Earth–Moon system. We present the discovery of 2024 PT _5 , a minimoon discovered by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System Sutherland telescope on 2024 August 7. The minimoon with heliocentric semimajor axis, a ~ 1.01 au, a...
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| Main Authors: | , , , , , , |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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IOP Publishing
2025-01-01
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| Series: | The Astrophysical Journal Letters |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ada1d0 |
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