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Earth has acquired another moon. Sort of like a "new" moon.
February 27, 2020By Marina Koran
...Researchers (click here) at other observatories and amateur astronomers around the world raced to monitor the newcomer in the sky, collecting as much data as they could. When they calculated its orbit, they were baffled. The object wasn’t a newcomer at all. So far, their work suggests that the object has been moving around us, gravitationally bound to the Earth for the past many months—at least a year, but potentially closer to three. We’ve had a tiny new moon all this time, and we didn’t know about it....
Arecibo needs to be rebuilt. It was a very upsetting loss. The old telescope might be salvaged to facilitate a new one.
