New ‘quasi-moon’ discovered near Earth has been travelling alongside our planet since 100 BC

Scientists just lately found an asteroid that tags together with Earth throughout its yearly journey across the solar. 

Dubbed 2023 FW13, the area rock is taken into account a “quasi-moon” or “quasi-satellite,” which means it orbits the solar in an identical time-frame as Earth does, however is barely barely influenced by our planet’s gravitational pull. It’s estimated to be 50 toes (15 meters) in diameter — roughly equal to a few giant SUVs parked bumper to bumper. Throughout its orbit of the solar, 2023 FW13 additionally circles Earth, coming inside 9 million miles (14 million kilometers) of our planet. For comparability, the moon has a diameter of two,159 miles (3,474 km) and comes inside 226,000 miles (364,000 km) of Earth on the closest level of its orbit, in keeping with NASA.