{"id":8457,"date":"2024-09-20T12:36:03","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T10:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/starbottle.space\/?p=8457"},"modified":"2024-09-20T12:36:05","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T10:36:05","slug":"una-seconda-luna-per-la-terra-tutto-vero-per-due-mesi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starbottle.space\/en\/a-second-moon-for-the-earth-all-true-for-two-months\/","title":{"rendered":"A second Moon for Earth? All true! (for two months)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Earth will soon have a new moon, practically invisible even with the most modern telescopes, with its 10 metres in diameter, but for just under two months, it will all be real: this is confirmed by a study led by Carlos de la Fuente Marcos, from the Complutense University of Madrid, and published in the journal <a href=\"https:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/article\/10.3847\/2515-5172\/ad781f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Research Notes<\/a>.<br>The protagonist of this incredible story is asteroid 2024 PT5, which is approaching Earth.<br>The asteroid will be captured for a short period by our planet's gravity before being flung away (without causing damage to Earth).<br>According to calculations, it is expected to enter Earth's orbit at the end of September and the new mini-moon will remain in orbit for 53 days, until mid-November.<br>As often happens in these cases, researchers first had to ascertain that the mysterious object was not, given its small size, a satellite or space debris, among the many that orbit uncontrolled around the Earth. In short, two moons for one Earth, but the offer expires very soon!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La Terra avr\u00e0 presto una nuova Luna, praticamente invisibile anche con i telescopi pi\u00f9 moderni, con i suoi 10 metri di diametro, ma per poco meno di due mesi, sar\u00e0 tutto reale: a certificarlo \u00e8 uno studio guidato da Carlos de la Fuente Marcos, dell&#8217;Universit\u00e0 Complutense di Madrid, e pubblicato sulla rivista Research Notes.Protagonista di [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":8458,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":44,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vita-nello-spazio"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starbottle.space\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starbottle.space\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starbottle.space\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starbottle.space\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starbottle.space\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/starbottle.space\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8459,"href":"https:\/\/starbottle.space\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8457\/revisions\/8459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starbottle.space\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starbottle.space\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starbottle.space\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starbottle.space\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}