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"https://mediadc.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/3ed61ca/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2290x1296+0+0/resize/1060x600!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmediadc.brightspotcdn.com%2Ff5%2F7b%2F1a67a1f941bdb07e56c779dc6335%2Fap-18358829857531.jpg"], "movies": [], "text": "A new \"mini-moon\" is temporarily orbiting around Earth.\n\nThe International Astronomical Union's Small Planet Center, a scientific group that monitors the spatial positions of small orbital bodies, announced last month that a new moon orbited Earth for the past three years. Astronomers Teddy Pruyne and Kacper Wierzchos, who made the discovery, posted about the news on Twitter.\n\n\"Earth has a new temporarily captured object/Possible mini-moon called 2020 CD3,\" Wierzchos tweeted. \"On the night of Feb. 15, my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Teddy Pruyne and I found a 20th magnitude object. Here are the discovery images.\"\n\nBIG NEWS (thread 1/3). Earth has a new temporarily captured object/Possible mini-moon called 2020 CD3. On the night of Feb. 15, my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Teddy Pruyne and I found a 20th magnitude object. Here are the discovery images. pic.twitter.com/zLkXyGAkZl \u2014 Kacper Wierzchos (@WierzchosKacper) February 26, 2020\n\nThe moon is estimated to be between 1.9 and 3.5 meters across, roughly the size of a car. 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