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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. News24? by lukewarmfusion · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I've never heard of this site, but I expect you'll hear a lot of complaints...

    "KuduClub requires a small, monthly fee from US$2,95 or US$9.95 for the broadband package."

    At least the New York Times only steals your soul... this actually takes your money. Anyone have a link/text/whatever so we can read it?

  2. Re:space station by Guppy06 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    "How much delta-v would it take to push it into a stable orbit."

    Probably just enough to trigger the "No nukes in space!" protesters.

  3. Re:since 1996? by sg_oneill · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    No I think the usage is correct , but strange.

    It sorta becomes a metaphor at the point like is used, but the "literally" is sorta saying "It reaaly really reaaly is like "

    Also. You assume all readers here speak english as a first language. And thats a bad assumption :)

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