Earth has adopted a new (ish) traveling companion. It’s a tiny asteroid with quasi-moon status, named 2025 PN7 by astronomers ...
Scientists out of the Pan-STARRs observatory in Hawaii discovered the new quasi-moon on Aug. 29, according to CNN and ABC ...
The study explains that 2025 PN7 is currently in a 1:1 resonance with Earth, meaning it takes the same time to orbit the Sun ...
Earth has just acquired a new best friend in space – a small asteroid named 2025 PN7. Not quite a moon, it has been moving in ...
Something called a "quasi-moon" was discovered in August, and now many are wondering if we should count our new neighbor as a second moon.
NASA did confirm there is a newly discovered “quasi-moon.” A quasi-moon is an asteroid that moves in sync with Earth. It’s ...
The mini-moon/asteroid will only be joining Earth's orbit temporarily before it returns to its other orbital path.
Despite the newcomer, Earth still has just one true moon. NASA says 2025 PN7 keeps its distance — about 4 million kilometers ...
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