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Our planet has apparently had a small companion that went undetected for decades. What took so long to find it and why was it ...
Astronomers discover asteroid 2025 PN7, earth's latest quasi-satellite, revealing insights into planetary dynamics and ...
Earth has a new friend — and it's been waiting for us to notice it for decades. In a new study published in the journal ...
At its nearest, 2025 PN7 comes 186,000 miles (299,337 kilometres) from Earth. Its average distance is about 238,855 miles ...
Astronomers discovered a small quasi-moon named 2025 PN7 orbiting near Earth, first observed on August 2, 2025, from Hawaii’s ...
Astronomers have identified a small asteroid, designated 2025 PN7, orbiting near Earth, intriguingly behaving like a quasi-moon.
Astronomers have found yet another quasi-moon companion of Earth in its orbit around the Sun believed to be a chunk of our ...
A recently observed object called 2025 PN7 was found orbiting near the Earth. The quasi-moon is expected to accompany our ...
Earth has a new quasi-moon, which is called 2025 PN7. A new paper has revealed that it has been orbiting near our planet ...
Aside from 2025 PN7, there are 7 other quasi-moons, according to the Planetary Society, which they refer to as “a gravitational sleight of hand.” From our terrestrial point of view, they may appear to ...
The region where the gravitational influence of Earth is the dominant force, is called the Hill Sphere. This extends up to ...
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