Say Hello To Earths Mini Moon 2020 CD3
What do you do if you're a lonely planet looking for a new companion? Well you might use your gravity to catch yourself a tiny moon. That's what our Earth did with a small car-sized chunk of space rock called 2020 CD3 discovered by Kacper Wierzchos and Teddy Pruyne at the Catalina Sky Survey.
Learn more:
ASTEROIDS https://www.spacetv.net/asteroids/
THE MOON https://www.spacetv.net/the-moon/
PLANET EARTH https://www.spacetv.net/earth/
ORBITAL MECHANICS https://www.spacetv.net/orbital-mecha...
Sources:
https://www.newscientist.com/article/...
https://www.teslarati.com/meet-earths...
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-...
Credits:
Kacper Wierzchoś - Twitter @WierzchosKacper
European Southern Observatory (ESO)
NASA
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
NASA/Dan Gallagher
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
ESA
Aleksandr Ivanov
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