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Earth's Little Brother Found

loconet writes "The BBC is reporting that astronomers have discovered the first object ever that is in a companion orbit to the Earth. Asteroid 2002 AA29 is only about 100 metres wide and never comes closer than 3.6 million miles to our planet."

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  1. Earth's little brother is a faggot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Gay as Gore Vidal with a dildo up his arse.

  2. Re:miniature earth!? by kingkade · · Score: 0, Troll

    lol, I could see it now. An entire mini-earth complete with these little lincoln navigators (which happen to be the size of regular cars here) driven by mini-earthlings yapping on cell phones cutting each other off, flipping the bird, with these little american flags hanging off each fender to show their solodarity. let us nuke it before we spread...;-]

  3. Thank god for the BBC by INMCM · · Score: 0, Troll

    If it wasn't for foreign news agencies, I would never hear about stuff like this. Stupid American sensationalist journalism with their "Sniper" amd "War on Terror" and "March of Dimes Parade" coverage.

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  4. Lets see thats 9x the distance to the moon... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Every 28 days the moon moves w/ the speed2 pi 238000 miles/month.
    or .61miles /sec.The accelleration is (x+R)^2= R^2 + (.61)^2 with
    R =238000miles.
    x +R =(.3721 + 56644000000)^.5 238000.000000781722
    x=.000000781722miles/sec^2 =.004127foot/sec^2
    Since the Asteroid is 9x further than themoon the the force is1/81 times
    luner standard. I think it'll get here about the time Bush figuires out it was Sausdis gave the orders, it was Saudis who did this thing Its Saudi Aeabia that should be paying reparations not the drivers of the world.

    Its the oil people who have kept us prisoner to arab oil.Oil wells
    like water wells refill constantly.Carbon is one of the top 15
    elements so there is more than enough of it boiling up out of
    the earth's interior. Our wells merely have to be repaired being , often
    we drilled into the top releasing the gas pressure necessary to
    raise the fluid factions to the surface.

    Poor Martha Stewart they're going after her to roll over on wacsel
    & his cancer copyright.Oil men don't seem to like cancer cures.
    The iodine anti nuc tablets have been stoped by some group
    who thinks nuclear protection would degrade America's fear
    of nuclear materials. She gets stuck in the middle.

    Bush says the economy went wacko because of criminal
    CEO. I don't care & I doubt others doInvestors don't like the government trumping up charges the destroy the stock values.
    Martha Stewart's stockhoders lost 600 million on charges supported only by several poor souls trying to stay out of jail.

    Enron was run by some hi rollers but they had pipelines that
    would have got every penny back & then some.

    I feel quite sure that Harvard "Skull & Bones" society knows when to buy & sell.

    What we need are strict laws to impeach unconstitutional acts
    of governent notCEOs who create Americas wealth. Yeah they get 10 million dollar bonuses but they bring in a billion dollars in busines.
    Working for themselves they couldtake all of it,They're not slaves,
    they gota right to a cut.