Say hello to our new moon

[MadRat]

Say hello to our new moon

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PARIS (AFP) Mar 26, 2004
Earth has acquired a "quasi-moon" -- an asteroid that will encircle our planet for the next couple of years while it orbits the sun on a horseshoe-shaped path, according to a report to be published on Saturday in New Scientist.

The asteroid, 2003 YN17, "is probably a chunk of debris" from an impact between a larger space rock and the surface of the moon, the British weekly says.
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SpaceDaily

To think its common...

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Two other "quasi-moons" -- temporary fellow-travellers that loop around the earth for while as they girdle the sun -- have been spotted in recent years: Cluithne and asteroid 2002 AA29.
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[conjur]

As long as they don't land on my car, I'm cool.

 

[XZeroII]

Dave: I have been studying this sort of thing since I was a kid. I predict that this is a result of deforestation. Because of deforestation along the equator, the earth is spinning fast than normal, thus attracting more debris. The world will end soon because of this.

 

[Czar]

Originally posted by: XZeroII
Dave: I have been studying this sort of thing since I was a kid. I predict that this is a result of deforestation. Because of deforestation along the equator, the earth is spinning fast than normal, thus attracting more debris. The world will end soon because of this.

???

 

[KK]

Originally posted by: XZeroII
Dave: I have been studying this sort of thing since I was a kid. I predict that this is a result of deforestation. Because of deforestation along the equator, the earth is spinning fast than normal, thus attracting more debris. The world will end soon because of this.

hmmm, I thought the polar caps melting was causing the earth to attract more debris.

KK

 

[conjur]

nah...it's my magnetic personality!

 

[Officerdown]

Originally posted by: conjur
As long as they don't land on my car, I'm cool.

You drive a Prius or Yugo?

 

[conjur]

Not quite.

 

[Moonbeam]

I thought maybe somebody else had been discovered that knew something.

 

[sandorski]

As long as it's not a ball of garbage I don't mind it hanging around for a bit.

 

[RabidMongoose]

Let's bomb it before it becomes a threat.

 

[ReiAyanami]

i blame SUVs and republicans.

 

[Officerdown]

Originally posted by: ReiAyanami
i blame SUVs and republicans.

Hehe... I like my SUV and it likes Iraqi oil.

 

[Zephyr106]

The environment or SUVs are not to blame for this calamity. This is obviously an act of God, to bring fear back into the hearts of the heathen masses. These atheists and liberals that I speak of commit the blasphemy of not hating gays, and of sometimes criticizing our President Bush, who was appointed by God and rules with divine right.

Zephyr

 

[conehead433]

"President Bush, who was appointed by God and rules with divine right."

ROTFLMAO!

 

[DealMonkey]

Originally posted by: Moonbeam
I thought maybe somebody else had been discovered that knew something.

I thought you knew nothing? No?

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: Czar

Originally posted by: XZeroII
Dave: I have been studying this sort of thing since I was a kid. I predict that this is a result of deforestation. Because of deforestation along the equator, the earth is spinning fast than normal, thus attracting more debris. The world will end soon because of this.

???

At least he has been paying attention, very good, maybe there is a glimmer of hope.

 

[Moonbeam]

Originally posted by: DealMonkey

Originally posted by: Moonbeam
I thought maybe somebody else had been discovered that knew something.

I thought you knew nothing? No?

Yeah, but knowing that is something.

 

[dmcowen674]

"Say hello to our new moon"

So when do we "land" on this one?

 

[Red Dawn]

"Meet the new Moon same as the old Moon"