Earth gained a mini-moon this Sunday, Sept. 29 by capturing a nearby asteroid with its gravitational field. Earth pulled asteroid 2024 PT5 into its gravitational field, changing the asteroid’s orbit ...
On 11 November at 10:30 UTC, close to the 331st apogee, SMART-1 will be in the middle of a “weak stability boundary”. In this region the spacecraft is neither in an Earth-bound orbit, nor a Moon-bound ...