Earth Has a Second, 'Mini' Moon, Says NASA

15 Oct 2017 16:50 #1 by ScienceChic
Who knew?! :coolwink:

Earth Has a Second, 'Mini' Moon, Says NASA
RAFI LETZTER, BUSINESS INSIDER
16 JUN 2016

NASA says asteroid 2016 HO3, which we first heard about via writer George Dvorsky at Gizmodo, is currently locked into "a little dance" with Earth.

The rock’s orbit is irregular, causing it to drift between 38 and 100 times the distance of our planet’s primary Moon, and bob up and down across Earth’s orbital plane.

NASA says it’s larger than 120 feet (36.5 metres) across but no more than 300 feet (91 metres) wide, has likely orbited our world for about a century, and will stick around for many more centuries to come.


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