ASTEROID 2024 PT5 actually comes from Arjun asteroid belt. There are many esteredroids in this belt whose orbit is said to be the same as Earth. NASA first discovered this asteroid on 7 August. It was discovered by NASA’s Estroid Terrestrial Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS). It is also interesting that it will not put even a whole round of the earth. Since the gravity of the Earth is very powerful, its orbit will change a slight change and after that it will leave the orbit of the Earth. According to the BBC, many esteoids also come up to about 45 million kilometers of the earth. Similarly, when a small asteroid like 2024 PT5 comes to a slow speed (less than 3540 km per hour), its gravity binds it and it starts moving around it. The same incident is going to happen today.
Such incidents have happened before this. In 1981, an asteroid named 2022 NX1 came close to the earth and started moving around it. After that it again came close to the earth in 2022. Many times these asteroids are so small that even space scientists are not able to come.
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