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    Sep 01, 2020 3 minutes
    BY ELIZABETH PRESTON

    UP IN SPACE

    Hello, and Goodbye, to a Mini-Moon

    IN FEBRUARY, ASTRONOMERS MADE A SURPRISING ANNOUNCEMENT: EARTH HAD TWO MOONS, NOT ONE.

    The first was the big moon we all know and love. The second moon was tiny in comparison, only about as big as a car. It likely started as an asteroid flying through space, then got caught in Earth’s gravity and started circling our planet instead. Astronomers named the mini-moon 2020 CD3. They calculated

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