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Did NASA really discover a temporary, second moon?
['The France Observers', 'Nora Litoussi']
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Its second moon claim was featured in a post that garnered more than 16,000 reactions.
While it has an Earth-like orbit, that does not make it a “temporary second moon”.
Why are people talking about a 'second moon'?
A moon orbits around a planet that it is linked to by gravity, like our moon that orbits Earth.
In reality, our moon has a diameter of around 3,400 kilometres, while 2025 PN7’s diameter is only 19 metres.