From the Untold Universe

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NASA CONFIRMED THAT EARTH HAS A NEW

MOON
One is the loneliest number, especially when you are a single moon circling the planet full of
humans. But lets not lose hope here because NASA just announced that there might be a
second moon come to keep you company. This newly discovered moon is smaller than our
moon and goes around the Earth astonishingly irregularly, but still, two is quite better than one.
This second moon, is actually an asteroid called 2016 HO3 and it is currently locked into a
little dance with Earth. It's being called as "Quasi-Moon".

This new moon has been dancing around for over a century now. Its orbit is extremely elliptical,
affecting it to go a wee bit off tangentbetween 38 and 100 times the distance of Earths
primary moonand bob up and down across Earths orbital plane. This new moon is tilted by
about 8 and it orbits the Sun for 365.93 days, which is a little longer than Earths 365.24
day-long year. NASA said Since 2016 HO3 loops around our planet, but never ventures very
far away as we both go around the sun, we refer to it as a quasi-satellite of Earth

Since its tilted and has an elliptical orbit, sometimes it is quite closer to the Sun and moving a
little faster than Earth. Other times, it is a little bit farther out and moving a bit more slowly,
however it never gets any closer than about 14 million kilometers from Planet Earth or farther
than about 40 million kilometers.

According to NASA, its larger than 36.5 meters across, but no more than 91 meters wide, and
will circle earth for many more centuries to come. 2016 HO3 was first discovered by
astronomers in April 27 with the Pan-STARRS 1 asteroid survey telescope located in
Haleakala, Hawaii.