New minimoon found orbiting Earth. There will be more
Rebecca Boyle, The New York Times
Updated as of Feb 28 12:14 PM
Earth gets a new moon most months, but this month, we got two.About 4 a.m. on Feb. 15 at the Mount Lemmon Observatory, 9,000 feet above Tucson, Arizona, two astronomers from the Catalina Sky Survey, Kacper Wierzchos and Theodore Pruyne, watched as their computer screens registered a dot moving against a static background of stars.
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