{"id":196211,"date":"2024-09-15T05:45:05","date_gmt":"2024-09-15T10:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/earth-to-get-an-asteroid-mini-moon-for-2-months"},"modified":"2024-09-15T05:45:05","modified_gmt":"2024-09-15T10:45:05","slug":"earth-to-get-an-asteroid-mini-moon-for-2-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/earth-to-get-an-asteroid-mini-moon-for-2-months","title":{"rendered":"Earth to get an asteroid mini-moon for 2 months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/earth-to-get-an-asteroid-mini-moon-for-2-months2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have measured the magnetic moment of the muon to unprecedented precision, more than doubling the previous record.<\/p>\n<p>Physicists from the Muon g-2 Collaboration cycled muons, known as \u201cheavy electrons,\u201d in a particle storage <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/ring\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">ring<\/a> at Fermilab in the United States to nearly the speed of light. Applying a magnetic field about 30,000 times stronger than Earth\u2019s, the muons precessed like tops around their spin axis due to their own magnetic moment.<\/p>\n<p>As they circled a 7.1-meter diameter storage ring, the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/muon\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">muon<\/a>\u2019s magnetic moment, influenced by virtual particles in the vacuum, interacted with the external magnetic field. By comparing this precession frequency with the cycling frequency around the ring, the collaboration was able to determine the muon\u2019s \u201canomalous magnetic moment\u201d to a precision of 0.2 parts per million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have measured the magnetic moment of the muon to unprecedented precision, more than doubling the previous record. Physicists from the Muon g-2 Collaboration cycled muons, known as \u201cheavy electrons,\u201d in a particle storage ring at Fermilab in the United States to nearly the speed of light. Applying a magnetic field about 30,000 times stronger [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}