Earth will soon welcome a tiny 'mini-moon' — but for a limited time only

A visitor will be in our neighbourhood this weekend — an asteroid that will temporarily become a second moon orbiting the Earth. About 11 metres in diameter, the “mini moon” will not be visible through amateur telescopes but much larger telescopes will track it until late November when Earth loses its temporary partner until the next “mini-moon” comes by.

The space rock, an asteroid by the name of 2024 PT5, will show up to do a partial orbit around Earth by the end of this month, before slipping back into space.

Global's Eric Sorensen has more on how long it's here for, and where it's headed.

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[E-rad]

Misleading title. It will not light up the night sky and you would need a fairly powerful telescope to even see it. Thanks Global

[litterbug]

Global news flash you can see Uranus if you use a mirror

[kushfrancis]

the most misleading title i’ve seen today

[egSmith-spgl]

If were lucky 2024PT5 is coming to take trudeau afar in the outer

[AppEal-yy]

I was telling Nasa's Psyche Gold Asteroid Program & everyone else I was going to attract a metal asteroid close enough to earth to mine through my energy field & now this happens!!! I also told NASA about installing winglets on airplanes like everyone did on paper airplanes before they but winglets on airplanes

[MaxLee-fhpn]

This is just a cover story for something else…

[RovePaths]

Mini-moon? How dare you dead name what is now an asteroid.

[damianmlamb]

So you can see a bus size object but cannt see surface of the moon clear with zoom??

[jonnybloggs]

🤣😂🤣😂😂 an 11 meter rock is now classed as a “second moon “ 🤣😂🤣😂😂🤣 as believable as the Rona all was ….

[basswanderer]

When I look up these nights with a clear sky all I see are satellites passing by, will I see a tiny little light at least in the northern hemisphere from this mini moon?

[quantum]

English media, their country is going bankrupt, and they focus on the moon.

[MarcusFiregone]

Can anyone say how close it will get? I've seen a reference to 10x the distance from the Earth to the Moon as the closest point but the graphics all show it much closer. I'd like to get the facts.

[arete_]

We can't see it but it will light up the sky? 🤦

[prestonmatthews]

Is it going to come and end us like the dinosaurs? Because things need to change
Darn it! 😢

[December]

It's a vacuum can o'bug spray🎃👾

[edwardcook]

You guys are so bad at reporting the news

[jimbojones]

Bollox. Like the fake sun, the sun simulator . . . eh?

[PatriciaBaughman-kn]

Thompson Larry Garcia Larry Miller Richard

[Aboard_and_Abroad]

lol if asteroids and meteors were real the kessler effect would have taken everything down a long time ago

[acanadianfriend]

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