Good news everyone! The moon is about to get a new best friend in the form of a mini-moon which will begin orbiting planet Earth from next week onwards.

While normally we’re going round and round in space with just the one moon going round us, it’s set to be double lunacy for a short while.

Yes, sorry people who are already coming round to the idea of a mini-moon becoming a regular new fixture in the sky, it’s not going to last and it’ll be gone by the end of the year.

This new moon was spotted by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, a group of people who really wanted their organisation’s name to form the acronym ‘ATLAS’.

They caught sight of an asteroid named 2024 PT5 on 7 August, and they reckon it’ll fully orbit our planet between 29 September and 25 November before breaking free of Earth’s gravitational pull and hurtling off somewhere else in space.

According to Live Science, the new moon will be with us for just 57 days in which time it’ll be very difficult to spot because it’s only going to be about 10 metres wide.

Just to put that into perspective, our actual moon is about 3.4 million metres wide so perhaps we ought to be putting more emphasis on the ‘mini’ aspect of this mini-moon.