NASA confirms Earth has 2 moons, kind of

(NewsNation) — Earth has a new travel buddy in space.

According to NASA, a small asteroid named 2025 PN7 is what scientists are calling a "quasi-moon," which is considered a rare companion that travels almost exactly in sync with Earth.

2025 PN7 was discovered by scientists at the University of Hawaii, where they estimated that it was 18 to 36 meters wide. The scientists said it has probably been tagging along Earth for around 60 years, and if its current orbit holds, it’ll stay with us until 2083 before drifting away into open space again.

The second moon does not affect us on Earth, as 2025 PN7 has never come any closer than 4 million kilometers away from the planet. Scientists said that it is 10 times farther away than the moon and that it has no impact on tides and gravity and adds