A Conversation for The Moon
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pointless in portsmouth Started conversation Oct 10, 2003
A few weeks ago a tv programme mentioned that there may be a second moon orbiting the earth is this nonsense or does someone know something?
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Trillian Posted Nov 19, 2003
Yeah. It was "QI" or 'quite interesting' I did note the name down, but can't remember for the life of me what it was...
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Trillian Posted Nov 19, 2003
...found it! "Cruithne" more of an asteroid that zooms out of reach of the Earth and crosses the path of at least 2 other planets before zooming back again. See the link below:
http://burtleburtle.net/bob/physics/cruithne.html
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Llaniw Posted Jan 12, 2004
It is not an asteroid it is an orbitting mass satellite around the Earth and is much more interesing than the luna
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Ulysses2 Posted Sep 2, 2005
I think there's some dispute about whether Cruithne is actually a moon or not because it has no gravitational connection to the Earth. Anyone know whether this is true?
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Ih-Dschieh Posted Jan 17, 2008
As far as I know there is no dispute. Cruithne has an orbit around the sun that lasts almost exactly a year but this orbit is not on the planetary plane; far from it. So it hardly ever crosses the path of the Earth.
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