Earth's "Second Moon" Gets Close, Briefly

angkor writes with a snippet from MSNBC: "An asteroid that behaves something like a second moon to Earth will make its closest approach to our planet next week before shuttling back into deep space for nearly a century."

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Link to JPL's press release

[netjeff]

Here's a link directly to JPL's press release:

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/releases/2003/1.cfm

There are several interesting anmiations.