Moon, Earth and 2025 PN7
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PN7 has been a mysterious space traveler, shadowing our planet for decades undetected in our vast celestial world, until now.
THAT’s NO MOON - Earth doesn’t just have one moon; sometimes, it has a companion satellite or “mini-moon.” Discovered on August 2 and reported in September, this is not breaking news. Asteroid 2025 PN7, Earth’s newest quasi-satellite, is small, about 19 meters in diameter, and… pic.twitter.com/VPwzQsy6PF
Astronomers have identified 2025 PN7, a small, faint asteroid, as a quasi-moon that has been orbiting near Earth for approximately 60 years. This celestial object, about the size of a city bus, follows the sun but stays in Earth's orbital path,
In a discovery that could rewrite what we know about where water comes from and the building blocks of life in the solar system, researchers have found rare meteorite pieces inside dust brought back from the far side of the Moon.
The rare samples, uncovered by China’s Chang’e-6 mission, might help to reveal secrets of how the Solar System evolved.
Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden and the US space agency NASA have made an unexpected discovery that challenges one of the basic rules of chemistry and provides new knowledge about Saturn's enigmatic moon Titan.
China’s Chang’e-6 mission, the first sample return mission to the far side of the Moon last year, made a fascinating discovery.
The discovery that molecules of methane and ethane can worm their way into the crystal lattice of frozen hydrogen cyanide has big implications for the chemistry on Saturn's largest moon, Titan.