Where Is 2024 Pt5. The newly discovered asteroid, named 2024 pt5, will temporarily be captured by earth’s gravity and orbit our world from september 29 to november 25, according to. That means the moon is a whopping 308,108 times wider than the lunar pretender.
2024 pt5’s ‘close encounter’ with earth on january 9, 2025, when it will be around 1.8 million kilometres away, or over 4.5 times farther away than the moon. While the moon is an estimated 2,159 miles (3,475 km) in diameter, 2024 pt5 is believed to be just 37 feet wide.