Overview

• Pan-STARRS in Hawaii first spotted the near‑Earth asteroid in August 2025, and researchers later traced it in telescope images back to 2014.
• Models indicate the object has hovered in a quasi‑satellite state since roughly the 1960s and will likely persist for about another 60 years.
• The asteroid is extremely faint at about magnitude 26 and small at roughly 19 meters across, placing it beyond the reach of amateur telescopes.
• It moves in a 1:1 resonance with Earth around the Sun, currently lies between about 2.8 million and 37.2 million miles from our planet, and sits in the Southern Hemisphere constellation Piscis Austrinus.
• 2025 PN7 joins a small group of Earth’s quasi‑satellites that includes Kamoʻoalewa, the target of China’s Tianwen‑2 mission slated to return samples in 2027.