Earth has a new “quasi-moon” that will travel with us until 2083

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A team of astronomers from the University of Hawaii recently discovered a new quasi-moon, officially named 2025 PN7. It was first detected in the summer of 2025, and scientists estimate that it is between 18 and 36 meters wide — about the size of a small building.

Unlike our real Moon, which is held tightly by Earth’s gravity, this quasi-moon is not gravitationally attached to our planet. Instead, it follows its own path around the Sun, but in a way that’s very similar to Earth’s orbit.

You can think of it like two runners on a track: they move at about the same speed and stay close to each other, but they’re not connected. That’s how a quasi-moon moves alongside Earth.

https://unionrayo.com/en/quasi-moon-earth-asteroid-2025-pn7/

 

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