{"id":143258,"date":"2025-09-17T12:01:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T12:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/143258\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T12:01:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T12:01:09","slug":"arjuna-2025-pn7-is-the-newest-member-of-arjuna-asteroid-belt-is-it-a-quasi-moon-or-mini-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/143258\/","title":{"rendered":"Arjuna 2025 PN7 is the newest member of Arjuna asteroid belt. Is it a quasi moon or mini moon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first quasi-moon discovered was 1991 VG. The Spacewatch Project spotted the asteroid, which had an Earth-like orbit in 1991. At the time, it caused quite a surprise since it remained too close to Earth. This led some to believe that it was an &#8220;alien space probe&#8221;. However, later observations showed that it was really just a previously unknown class of objects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first quasi-moon discovered was 1991 VG. The Spacewatch Project spotted the asteroid, which had an Earth-like orbit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[66247,66248,31823,66250,66251,66249,66252,66253,90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-143258","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-arjuna-2025-pn7","9":"tag-arjuna-asteroid-belt","10":"tag-asteroid-belt","11":"tag-earth-mini-moons","12":"tag-earth-quasi-moon","13":"tag-new-mini-moon","14":"tag-quasi-moon-or-mini-moon","15":"tag-quasi-moon-or-mini-moon-difference","16":"tag-science","17":"tag-space","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}