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Meet Earth’s new mini-moon named Arjuna 2025 PN7 revealing hidden secrets of near-Earth asteroids
Earth has welcomed a new temporary mini-moon, asteroid 2025 PN7, a 62-foot object now orbiting our planet for decades. This quasi-moon, part of the Arjuna population, offers a rare chance to study near-Earth object dynamics and gravitational interactions.
Those social media and other reports that the Earth now has two moons appear to be off the mark by about a moon. Astronomers assure that we still have only one, true lunar satellite and that the object garnering all the buzz is a so-called quasi moon, technically a “quasi satellite,” known as 2025 PN7.