Exploring Earth's Unusual Dance with Quasi-Moons and the Fascinating World of Asteroids
Do you know that these days our planet has not one but several moons? Well, kind of. Astronomers have recently discovered another "moon" orbiting Earth, but it's not what you might be imagining. It's actually an asteroid trailing along beside our planet in a complex semi-orbit. This asteroid was named 2023 FW-13, and instead of simply orbiting our planet like the Moon does, it orbits the Sun. However, its orbit is so unusual that it causes the asteroid to circle Earth, too, keeping it in roughly the same area as our planet, even though it doesn't orbit it directly.