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.