NASA Confirms Earth’s “Secret Second Moon” – Tiny Asteroid 2025 PN7 Will Orbit with Us Until 2083
On Oct 22, 2025, space agencies worldwide celebrated the announcement that Earth has a new celestial companion. A team from the University of Hawaii’s Pan-STARRS survey discovered a tiny asteroid – designated 2025 PN7 – on Aug. 2, 2025, and subsequent orbit analysis showed it has been silently trailing Earth for roughly 60 yearschron.com. NASA confirmed in a press report that this 62-foot-wide rock is Earth’s newest “quasi-moon,” meaning it is not a bound satellite but a co-orbital asteroidts2.techhindustantimes.com. As one global space news outlet noted, astronomers “confirmed a tiny ‘quasi-moon’ – asteroid 2025 PN7 – has been co-orbiting Earth for decades”ts2.tech. Astronomers used NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory tools to study its path. The orbit of PN7 is unusual: it is in a 1:1 resonance with Earth, completing one solar orbit in the same time as Earthchron.com. From our viewpoint it “keeps pace” with Earth, appearing to loop around our planet. NASA models predict 2025 PN7 will continue this synchronized dance until about 2083, when perturbations will finally nudge it awayeconomictimes.indiatimes.comchron.com.