Overview

• The small near-Earth object, designated 2025 PN7, was detected by the Pan-STARRS survey in Hawaii in August and described in a Research Notes of the AAS paper.
• Researchers found prior sightings in images dating to 2014 and modeling suggests it has maintained a quasi-satellite resonance with Earth since the 1960s and will likely persist for decades.
• The object is estimated at about 19 meters across (roughly 15–30 meters) and is extremely faint at around magnitude 26.
• It currently lies between roughly 2.8 million and 37.2 million miles from Earth and was spotted in the constellation Piscis Austrinus.
• Classified as an Arjuna-type near-Earth asteroid, it poses no impact threat and its Earth-like orbit highlights growing mission interest in such targets, as seen with China’s Tianwen-2 to Kamoʻoalewa.