A New Mini-Moon for Earth! Meet 2026 QQ8
Astronomers confirmed the 1-meter asteroid is natural after follow-up observations, and it should remain bound to Earth through December.
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Krisztián Sárneczky found a faint, fast-moving celestial body in the data of the Piszkéstető Observatory. 2026 QQ8 may be a minimoon of Earth.
Earth has a new moon and it vanishes next month
Don’t blink, or you might just miss Earth’s newest natural satellite. Astronomers have officially confirmed that a tiny, near-Earth asteroid has been swept up by our planet’s gravity, granting us a rare and fascinating “mini-moon.” But this cosmic arrangement is strictly short-term: in just a few weeks, gravitational forces will fling our temporary celestial roommate […] Read the original article here: Earth has a new moon and it vanishes next m…
The asteroid 2026 QQ8 is temporarily orbiting the Earth like a moon, but will later leave our planet's environment and continue its journey around the Sun. The post A Hungarian astronomer discovered a temporary moon around the Earth first appeared on 24.hu.
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