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@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz
2025-10-26 22:07:16

A #MiniMoon that wasn't: the 'asteroid' 2025 US6 - minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K25, retracted in minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K25 - has been swiftly ID'd as the Chinese lunar test satellite Distant Retrograde Orbit (DRO) B: groups.io/g/mpml/topic/1159590. Here is its fun orbit around the Earth in an animation: bsky.app/profile/tony873004.bs