{"id":11250,"date":"2023-05-31T12:08:55","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T06:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=11250"},"modified":"2025-03-30T01:28:14","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T19:58:14","slug":"what-is-2023-fw13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-2023-fw13\/","title":{"rendered":"What is 2023 FW13?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About 2023 FW13:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>It is an asteroid<\/strong> which has been designated as a <strong>quasi-satellite or a quasi-moon<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>among the few known quasi-moons<\/strong> or satellites that we know of <strong>in our solar system.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It was <strong>identified by<\/strong> experts utilizing the <strong>Pan-STARRS telescope<\/strong> situated atop Hawaii\u2019s Haleakala volcano.<\/li>\n<li>It <strong>has been in Earth&#8217;s vicinity since 100 BC<\/strong> and will keep circling our planet for at least another 1,500 years, until AD 3700.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Features<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>The newfound asteroid 2023 FW13 <strong>circles the sun in sync with Earth.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>According to preliminary estimates, <strong>its diameter is from 10 to 20 meters<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>While <strong>not gravitationally bound to Earth<\/strong> in any discernible way (like our Moon), <strong>the asteroid&#8217;s bizarre orbit makes it circle our planet occasionally<\/strong>, earning it the name of a quasi-satellite or quasi-moon.<\/li>\n<li><strong>At the closest point<\/strong> in its slightly elliptical orbit around Earth, <strong>the moon comes within about 223,693 miles (360,000 km) of our planet.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What are quasi-moons?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Quasi-moons are also known as &#8216;quasi-satellites&#8217; because <strong>they appear to orbit our planet in the same way that our natural satellite, the Moon.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>It is a space rock that circles the Earth, but is gravitationally bound by the sun<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is an Asteroid?<\/h3>\n<p>Asteroids are small, rocky objects that orbit the sun. Although asteroids orbit the sun like planets, they are much smaller than planets.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wionews.com\/science\/earths-fake-moon-this-quasi-moon-circled-earth-since-at-least-100-bc-and-will-continue-to-do-so-598396\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Earth&#8217;s fake Moon? This &#8216;quasi-moon&#8217; has circled Earth since at least 100 BC, and will continue to do so<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2023 FW13 is an asteroid which has been designated as a quasi-satellite or a quasi-moon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11251,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11250","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}