Chunk of Moon Rock? NASA Tracks Asteroid 2024 PT5 During Close Earth Flyby

In January 2025, NASA’s Goldstone Solar System Radar is closely tracking asteroid 2024 PT5 during its nearest approach to Earth, a distance still five times farther than the Moon. First spotted in August 2024 by the University of Hawaiʻi’s ATLAS telescope, this small, 33-foot-wide asteroid has been orbiting the Sun in a path similar to [...]