The object is part of the Arjuna asteroid belt.
speech to space.comProfessor Carlos de la Fuente Marcos of the Complutense University of Madrid, one of the discoverers of the mini-moon, described Arjuna as “a secondary asteroid belt formed by space rocks that follow orbits very similar to that of the Earth at medium distances from the Earth.” The sun is about 93 million miles away.”
He said some objects in the belt could get close enough to Earth and travel at low enough speeds (about 2.8 million miles away and 2,200 miles per hour) to allow them to temporarily orbit Earth.
Other scientists even believe that, based on its past trajectory, the asteroid may be a fragment of Earth’s moon that broke off after a previous impact.
