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Earth may have had a ring system during the middle Ordovician period, approximately 466 million years ago. According to researchers, the ring formed when a massive asteroid came within Earth’s Roche limit and broke apart.
Earth’s gravity will trap a 10 m (23.8 feet) wide asteroid 2024 PT2 on September 29, 2024, keeping it in orbit for 56.6 days before returning it to its regular journey around the Sun on November 25, 2024.
The partial lunar eclipse of September 18, 2024, will be visible from several continents, including the Americas, Europe, and Africa. It is part of a series of astronomical phenomena in 2024 that will last more than four hours, with the partial phase beginning at 00:41 UTC and peaking at 02:44. During this period, a small piece of the Moon will pass through Earth’s umbral shadow, darkening around 8.5% of its surface.
On September 12, 2024, SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission made history by conducting the first commercial spacewalk from a spacecraft. This extravehicular activity (EVA) took place 738 km (459 miles) above Earth and was designed to test SpaceX’s new EVA suits as well as further commercial space exploration.
The Antarctic ozone hole is growing anew. This annual phenomenon, set to peak in September and October, causes dangerous UV rays to penetrate the Earth’s atmosphere deeper. As the Southern Hemisphere enters spring, the ozone hole over Antarctica has started to form, leading to a significant depletion of ozone in the stratosphere. Monitoring has revealed…
On September 2, 2024, at 20:12 UTC, NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick, commander of the SpaceX Crew-8 mission, recorded a beautiful timelapse footage of a dazzling green meteor explosion. The event was captured from the International Space Station (ISS) as it entered Earth’s atmosphere over Cairo, Egypt.
Chinese experts propose using nuclear weapons as a last resort to protect Earth from potential asteroid crashes. The team, led by Zhang He of the Beijing Institute of Spacecraft System Engineering, stressed that current planetary defense technologies, including NASA’s DART mission, may be insufficient against larger asteroids.
Heavy rains hit Mallorca on September 3, 2024, resulting in devastating flash floods in the Torrent de Pareis Canyon. A 26-year-old British woman was discovered dead, while a 32-year-old British male remains missing. The sudden storm caused widespread flooding, trapping hikers and requiring a large-scale rescue operation.
Two Australian scientists discovered a ‘seismic abnormality’ in the Earth’s outer core — a “donut” of energy around the equator, where seismic waves move about 2% slower than in other core regions. Their study provides new clues about the dynamics of our planet’s magnetic field.
A recent study led by Dipanjan Dey of the University of Southampton, in collaboration with international scientists, revealed the vital role that Atlantic and Arctic water mixing plays in maintaining the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), an essential component of the global climate system.
