It's not a new moon after all

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Cruithne will have to get used to being the moon's only little sister.

― Alan (Alan), Friday, 13 September 2002 13:31 (twenty-four years ago)

that's what they want you to believe.

It's much more likely to be an orbiting alien space station.

"Oh it's a piece of junk"...isn't that the same excuse they used at Roswell?

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 13 September 2002 13:35 (twenty-four years ago)

Cruithne is not a moon as it quite clearly orbits the sun and not earth.

― RickyT (RickyT), Friday, 13 September 2002 13:45 (twenty-four years ago)

B-b-but Mr T - surely the moon orbits the sun too.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 13 September 2002 13:47 (twenty-four years ago)

but THE moon orbits the earth AND the sun - i.e. it's in a stable orbit affected by the gravity of the earth and sun. Cruithne is the same. but yes it does not orbit AROUND the earth in any sense

― Alan (Alan), Friday, 13 September 2002 13:48 (twenty-four years ago)

(You know I think I might turn off graham's alert thing -- it puts me off my stride, so to speak)

― Alan (Alan), Friday, 13 September 2002 13:49 (twenty-four years ago)

It does not orbit around x = it does not orbit x surely?

― RickyT (RickyT), Friday, 13 September 2002 13:51 (twenty-four years ago)

Cruithne is not a moon

BURN HIM!

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 13 September 2002 13:55 (twenty-four years ago)

it does not ORBIT AROUND the SUN either, so it does not orbit the SUN either. it is in AN orbit

― Alan (Alan), Friday, 13 September 2002 13:57 (twenty-four years ago)

Lock up your whales! Kirk's back!

― Richard Jones (scarne), Friday, 13 September 2002 14:07 (twenty-four years ago)

IT DOES ORBIT AROUND THE SUN!

― RickyT (RickyT), Friday, 13 September 2002 14:08 (twenty-four years ago)

*backs away from the pulsing veins on RickyTs forehead*

― Sarah (starry), Friday, 13 September 2002 14:13 (twenty-four years ago)

not around in a full circle, it bats back and forth, never making a full loop.

― Alan (Alan), Friday, 13 September 2002 14:18 (twenty-four years ago)

U&K: what is the name of Gor's moon?

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 13 September 2002 14:23 (twenty-four years ago)

No it doesn't. See: http://www.astro.queensu.ca/~wiegert/3753/mpegs/nrot4.mpg (Cruithne's the thing that orbits outside the plane). The batting back and forth thing only happens from the Earths point of view.

― RickyT (RickyT), Friday, 13 September 2002 14:23 (twenty-four years ago)

RickyT is the new Galileo!

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 13 September 2002 14:24 (twenty-four years ago)

From its own point of view it is absolutely still!! (I am the new Pope something-or-other)

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 13 September 2002 14:27 (twenty-four years ago)

RickyT wins. we have been lied to by BBC news. what sort of rubbish dull thing is that. pah, i feel duped and disappointed.

― Alan (Alan), Friday, 13 September 2002 14:29 (twenty-four years ago)

So that stuff in the BBC news report about it passing the Lagrange point and being captured by the Earth is not true? I was hoping that little MPEG would show this happening, but it doesn't.

What's the name of the point in space about which both the Earth and Moon revolve (cos they revolve around each other to a certain extent, yes?)?

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 13 September 2002 14:45 (twenty-four years ago)

kensington

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 13 September 2002 15:25 (twenty-four years ago)

nothing in the universe moves, it's all fake, every morning *THEY* just shift the scenes.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 13 September 2002 16:09 (twenty-four years ago)

Gor's moon is called Son of Gor

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 13 September 2002 16:09 (twenty-four years ago)

Mark here is info on Gor's three moons: http://www.thegoreancave.com/research/moons.shtml

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 13 September 2002 16:17 (twenty-four years ago)

But it's not MONDAY!!!

― kate, Friday, 13 September 2002 19:28 (twenty-four years ago)

twenty-three years pass...

Astronomers discover previously unknown quasi-moon near Earth

Astronomers have spotted a quasi-moon near Earth — and the small space rock has likely been hanging out near our planet unseen by telescopes for about 60 years, according to new research.
The newly discovered celestial object, named 2025 PN7, is a type of near-Earth asteroid that orbits the sun but sticks close to our planet. Like our world, 2025 PN7 takes one year to complete an orbit around the sun.
Quasi-moons differ from temporary mini-moons that occasionally orbit Earth such as 2024 PT5, which circled the planet for two months in 2024 and could be an ancient fragment that was blasted off of our primary moon.
The newly found 2025 PN7 is just one of a handful of known quasi-moons with orbits near our planet, including Kamo‘oalewa, which is also thought to be an ancient lunar fragment. Kamo‘oalewa is one of the destinations of China’s Tianwen-2 mission launched in May, which aims to collect and return samples from the space rock in 2027.
The Pan-STARRS observatory located on the Haleakala volcano in Hawaii captured observations of 2025 PN7 on August 29. Archival data revealed that the object has been in an Earth-like orbit for decades.

― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 22 September 2025 11:58 (one year ago)

Love when they just casually find a new celestial object down the back of the sofa

― Marsee playground (gyac), Monday, 22 September 2025 12:03 (one year ago)

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