Astronomers have discovered another natural satellite of the Earth. Asteroid 2023 FW13 orbits the Sun in sync with Earth, making it our planet's " com.

According to David Chandler of the Sky \u0026 Telescope project, the asteroid's orbit is so complex that it is " For the first time scientists were able to notice the asteroid on March 28, the Pan-STARRS survey telescope helped them in this..

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Adrian Coffinet was the first to notice that an asteroid rotates synchronously with the Earth.. He ran simulations that gave him the idea that 2023 FW13 is a quasi-satellite of our planet..

2023 FW13 is not the first object of its kind found in Earth's outer space. Astronomers believe the space rock's orbit is similar to that of the asteroid Kamo'oalewa, also known as 2016 HO3, another quasi-satellite of Earth discovered in 2016.

After the discovery of the asteroid, amateur astronomers studying archival data have found sightings of the asteroid since 2012.. Using this data, they calculated the orbit of a celestial body in the past and future.. It turned out that the asteroid has been near the Earth since about 100 BC and will be here until at least 3700 years..

“If this is true, then 2023 FW13 will be the most stable quasi-satellite of the Earth ever found,” Chandler said..

According to scientists, the asteroid poses no danger to our planet.

Earlier it became known that China has chosen the near-Earth asteroid 2019 VL5 for a combined mission to explore and change the orbit of a celestial body. Mission launch scheduled for 2025.