Earth's new mini moon
Earth's new mini moon
What is needed to trap an asteroid and transform it into a moon, we need to have a gravitational field and the Earth, although it is not a giant planet, has a very respectable gravitational field, it is the largest of the four rocky planets, thanks to it we have Our beloved moon, which is a huge satellite compared to the rest, is the fifth largest satellite in the entire solar system, surpassed only by Ganymede, satellite of Jupiter, Titan, satellite of Saturn, Callisto and the volcanic Io, which are moons of Jupiter and also the The Earth is gravitationally trapped by the Moon at a fairly significant distance of 384,400 km.
To retain an asteroid, it is not only necessary for it to pass nearby, it must also pass at an adequate speed. Near the sun, all objects and planets have to move quickly to avoid falling into the sun's gravitational well. On the contrary, the further away from the sun, the more objects move slowly, that's why Pluto, although it is much smaller than our moon, it is easier for it to capture an asteroid that passes near it and transform it into a moon, because in addition to the Great Charon it has four other moons that we know of, although This is not the only way to have a moon.
This is the explanation for the reason why the Earth has a normally large moon compared to the planet. This relationship is only surpassed in the solar system by Pluto and Charon, which astronomers consider to be a double dwarf planet system. The new minimoon will be called 2024 PT5, is a captured asteroid type, although it is suspected that it could be a fragment of our own Moon, a fragment that was launched into space after a large asteroid collided with the moon.
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