Small Asteroid Is Earth's Constant Companion

[Dyna]

I have been reading about this for a while and it seems not to be on here anywhere as far as I can see.
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=6537
Interesting object hangs with earth circling us and traveling around the sun with us, only found in April.

A small asteroid has been discovered in an orbit around the sun that keeps it as a constant companion of Earth, and it will remain so for centuries to come.

As it orbits the sun, this new asteroid, designated 2016 HO3, appears to circle around Earth as well. It is too distant to be considered a true satellite of our planet, but it is the best and most stable example to date of a near-Earth companion, or "quasi-satellite."

"Since 2016 HO3 loops around our planet, but never ventures very far away as we both go around the sun, we refer to it as a quasi-satellite of Earth," said Paul Chodas,