NASA confirms Earth has 2 moons, kind of

(NewsNation) — Earth has a caller question buddy successful space.

According to NASA, a tiny asteroid named 2025 PN7 is what scientists are calling a "quasi-moon," which is considered a uncommon companion that travels astir precisely successful sync with Earth.

2025 PN7 was discovered by scientists astatine the University of Hawaii, wherever they estimated that it was 18 to 36 meters wide. The scientists said it has astir apt been tagging on Earth for astir 60 years, and if its existent orbit holds, it’ll enactment with america until 2083 earlier drifting distant into unfastened abstraction again.

The 2nd satellite does not impact america connected Earth, arsenic 2025 PN7 has ne'er travel immoderate person than 4 cardinal kilometers distant from the planet. Scientists said that it is 10 times farther distant than the satellite and that it has nary interaction connected tides and gravity and adds that it volition not outshine the existent moon.