{"id":93115,"date":"2020-03-12T07:28:06","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T07:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=93115"},"modified":"2020-03-12T07:28:08","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T07:28:08","slug":"mini-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/mini-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Mini-Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: Recently astronomers have discovered a Mini-Moon (2020 CD3) around which of the following planets of our Solar system?<\/strong><br> (a) Mars<br> (b) Venus<br> (c) Earth<br> (d) Jupiter<br> <strong>Answer: (c)<br> Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>On the night of February 15, 2020 the mini-moon called 2020 CD3 was discovered by researchers Kacper Wierzchos and Teddy Pruyne.<\/li><li>They made this discovery at the (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) Nasa-funded Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona.<\/li><li>It has been observed that celestial body has been orbiting our planet Earth for the past three years and commonly named as mini-moon and specifically as 2020 CD3.<\/li><li>The new mini-moon was discovered using a 1.52-metre telescope at Mount Lemmon Observatory near Tucson, Arizona.<\/li><li>The findings of the observation suggest that mini-moon 2020 CD3 entered Earth&#8217;s orbit around three years ago, Minor Planet Center (MPC) confirmed this.<\/li><li>Minor Planet Center is the single worldwide location for receipt and distribution of positional measurements of minor planets, comets and outer irregular natural satellites of the major planets.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/science\/story\/mini-moon-orbit-earth-2020-cd3-car-sized-second-natural-satellite-1650940-2020-02-28\">https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/science\/story\/mini-moon-orbit-earth-2020-cd3-car-sized-second-natural-satellite-1650940-2020-02-28<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.minorplanetcenter.net\/\">https:\/\/www.minorplanetcenter.net\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Recently astronomers have discovered a Mini-Moon (2020 CD3) around which of the following planets of our Solar system? (a) Mars (b) Venus (c) Earth (d) Jupiter Answer: (c) Related facts: On the night of February 15, 2020 the mini-moon called 2020 CD3 was discovered by researchers Kacper Wierzchos and Teddy Pruyne. They made this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":93116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1123],"tags":[3067],"class_list":["post-93115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-snes","tag-scientific"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}