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."

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Re:space station

[Guppy06]

"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.