Tag Archives: Minimoon

[ad_1] Astronomers found a minimaon orbiting Earth earlier this year, however, it has now receded. When astronomers from the Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona spotted a dark object called 2020 CD3 whizzing across the sky in February, they couldn’t be sure whether it was a minimaon or an artificial object …

[ad_1] Many more minimaons will be discovered in the next decade, said a team of academics led by Queen’s University in Belfast. It comes after details of the finding of the second minimaon, a floating silicate boulder called 2020 CD3, were published in the Astronomical Journal. Minima are small asteroids …