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Earth Acquires a Quasi-Moon

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the can-we-keep-it? dept.

richard_za writes "Earth has acquired a so called quasi-moon, an asteroid: 2003 YN1, which will encircle us for the next couple of years while it orbits the sun on a horse-shoe shaped path. Full story on News24. It was found by team led by Paul Chodas, an asteroid specialist at Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. An orbit simulation can be seen in this Java applet."

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  1. Re:frost piss! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You so fail it. You suck.

  2. For fuck's sake, parent comment is NOT. FUNNY. by James+A.+M.+Joyce · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Obligatory Star Wars, Obligatory Simpsons, Obligatory Futurama, Obligatory Family Guy and Obligatory bash.org quotes MUST FUCKING DIE. They're not funny anymore. It's an idiotic configuration of three words. Goddammit.

  3. frost p1St!? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    and easy - only it simple, argued by Eric 0utreach ar e

  4. Can you see it? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    WTF is all the fuss if you can't even see it? People need to stop submitting unimportant stories. Wow, a rock floating in space is a "quasi-moon"? No. Go do something.