On August 7, NASA-funded UH‘s Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert Survey (ATLAS) telescope in Sutherland, South Africa, detected an asteroid called 2024 PT5, which is being called ‘Earth’s next ‘mini-moon.’”
The asteroid orbits the Sun in a similar way to Earth. This means it stays about the same distance from the Sun as Earth does and follows a path that looks a lot like Earth’s path around the Sun.
