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Asteroid 2025 PN7 Detected: No Collision Risk for Earth

9/25/2025

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2025 PN7, about 62 feet wide, was detected August 2, 2025, at the University of Hawaii’s Pan-STARRS observatory, while it has orbited the Sun with Earth since the 1950s.
It belongs to the Arjuna near-Earth-object group, a rare class with seven known quasi-moons.
Current calculations show no collision risk for Earth.

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2025 PN7, about 62 feet wide, was detected August 2, 2025, at the University of Hawaii’s Pan-STARRS observatory, while it has orbited the Sun with Earth since the 1950s.
It belongs to the Arjuna near-Earth-object group, a rare class with seven known quasi-moons.
Current calculations show no collision risk for Earth.