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Earth Acquires a Quasi-Moon
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."
"That's no Moon!"
Your hair look like poop, Bob! - Wanker.
... which will encircle us for the next couple of ears...
I'm unfamiliar with this unit of measurement.
Have you no remorse? It's one thing to slashdot a web page, but java? You can't rightly do that!
Yeah I know, it's a joke. The class is just like any other static file.
How long is that in earth time?
Earth has acquired a so called quasi-moon, an asteroid: 2003 YN1, which will encircle us for the next couple of ears .
And exactly whose ears are we going to sacrifice to the asteroid god in order to have it here in our presence?
Here's the screenshot:
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Sun:earth:new "moon"
Not to scale. All rights reserved.
Not even a little evil?
QUASI-evil?
The Diet Coke of evil?
Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion.
Would those be the final front-ears?
You must think in Russian.
Actually we had a new moon last weekend. It happens every 28 days...
"..while it orbits the sun on a horse-shoe shaped path..."
If only Isac Newton knew this...
he'll know what to do
"...this is a Moon!"
(shudders) Now dealing with mental image of naked Australian backsides...
This is where the serious fun begins.
A single voice cried out in horror, and was suddenly silenced.
They're here to put the kibash on any more plans for Mars.
It looks like NASA has been Slashdotted
"Orbit diagram page temporarily unavailable due to high server load."
If a horse had dropped on him we wouldn't have to take calculus classes...
Let's name it Wormwood! Give the religious folk a hell of a time.
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You mean, like the millions of people who speak spanish natively or as a foreign language?
Let me go find that quatrain. I'm sure there was something about millions dead and nuclear winter and slashdotting the original site...
Aussie: That ain't a planet, this IS a planet.
Bart: That no planet, thats a quasi moon.
Aussie: Alright alright, I see you've played planetry quasi moony before then.
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Orbit diagram page temporarily unavailable due to high server load.
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Orbit diagram page temporarily unavailable due to slashdot.org
Can't we all just take turns?
*DrugCheese rants*
Two drunks are walking along. One drunk says to the other, "What a beautiful night, look at the moon." The other drunk stops and looks at his drunk friend. "You're wrong, that's not the moon, that's the sun." They began to argue when they come upon another drunk. They asked, "Sir, could you please help settle our argument? Tell us what that thing is up in the sky that's shining. Is it the moon or the sun?" The third drunk looked at the sky and said, "Sorry, I don't live around here."
With the discovery of this new moon, I'm offering you the opportunity to get in on the action! Just like the original moon, you can now own your own section of the new moon.
Looks like we did slashdot NASA. I wonder if the government will look upon this as a concentrated Denial of Service attack on a government computer... (or rather, a government server) If so... well, see you guys at Guantanamo...
P.S. Don't tell bush, but I think there may be oil up there and I would like to avoid invasion for now.
That really is my homepage, no kidding.
But he meant it literally. If astronomers weren't so damn busy sifting through the salt on their dinner table for that grain of pepper, they probably would have spotted the asteroid sooner. :)
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
Sure, that sounds good...
Until COBRA COMMANDER hijacks the asteroid base and holds the entire EARTH for ransom!
Betcha hadn't thought of THAT, had you?
The moon is bright over Lebanon tonight! The Lebanese moon looks down shim! sham! shikam!!! Cattle Explodes! Cow shrapnel drips off a tree cascades into a mothers tear. Poor little boy who goes into battle and comes back dead or worse comes back a man. Why don't you warn them moon? Why don't you say duck or scram? But the moon will not. The moon just sits there grinning like a corpse at a Dean Martin roast. What are you laughing at moon? Why don't you share it with the whole class moon? The moon laughs knowingly, the moon laughs, the moon, the.