Have you heard? Weâre getting a ! No, I havenât rewatched and too many times and imagined myself on Arrakis; weâre actually, here on Earth, getting a second Moonâbut itâs both tiny and temporary. NASA scientists have announced the Earth will have a âsecond moonâ from September 29 through November 25, when asteroid 2024 PT5 will be captured by the Earthâs gravitational pull before later escaping it. Unfortunately, we wonât be able to see this appropriately-named mini-Moonâaccording to , asteroid 2024 PT5 is only about 37 feet wide.
"The object that is going to pay us a visit belongs to the Arjuna asteroid belt, a secondary asteroid belt made of space rocks that follow orbits very similar to that of Earth at an average distance to the Sun of about 93 million miles (150 million kilometers)," mini-moon event expert and Universidad Complutense de Madrid professor Carlos de la Fuente Marcos told . "Objects in the Arjuna asteroid belt are part of the near-Earth object population of asteroids and comets." Okay, so thatâs the science of it.
But now letâs talk astrology. Will this teeny-tiny, temporary Moon have an effect on our horoscopes? Of course, we had to ask some astrologers for their theories. Astrologer , author of , suggests the mini-Moon might amplify the effects of eclipse season because it begins orbiting the Earth during the period between two eclipses (there was a lunar eclipse in Pisces on September 17, and weâll experience a solar eclipse in L.
