'Mini-moon' the size of a car discovered orbiting Earth. But it won't be there for long.
After billions of years, it looks like the moon found some temporary company in the form of a “mini-moon” that recently entered the Earth’s orbit.The discovery was made the night of Feb. 15 by Senior Research Specialist Kacper Wierzchos and Research Specialist Theodore Pruyne, both with the Catalina Sky Survey at the University of Arizona College of Science.Wierzchos tweeted enthusiastically Tuesday that the “mini-moon” is called 2020 CD3 and out of the nearly 1 million […]
