Is This Moon Three?

Posted by timothy on Wednesday September 11, 2002 @06:39AM from the cheese-buffet dept.

tetrad writes "The BBC reports that a new object has been discovered orbiting Earth. It's possible that it's just a piece of space junk, but more likely it is a rock that has been recently (in the last year) captured by our planet's gravitational field. If the object is confirmed to be natural, this would be Earth's third moon. (Did you know there were two already?)" Here's our earlier mention of Earth's alleged second moon. Update: 09/12 04:52 GMT by T : Reader cscx adds a link to an article running on space.com which says this newfound object may be some trash from the Apollo missions.

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x-files fodder by circletimessquare · 2002-09-11 06:45 · Score: 1, Offtopic

just arrived? nah, nah, nah... it's a camouflaged spy device from an alien civilization.

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At last. . . by AlaskanUnderachiever · 2002-09-11 06:57 · Score: 0, Offtopic

with this new moon I shall have a second orbital base for my friggin' lasers. . .

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Re:Don't look now... by Chundra · 2002-09-11 07:03 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Hmmm. Pretty funny how the "moon" is known as J002E2 and you were modded down as offtopic. Typical.