06-17-2016, 02:18 PM
NASA announced Earth may have another moon. It’s much, much smaller than our original moon. Astronomers spotted it at the asteroid survey telescope in Haleakala, Hawaii.
http://www.businessinsider.com/earth-sec...ho3-2016-6
It (2016HO13) a captured asteroid, it has apparently been in a gravitational dance with the Earth for about a century and it could remain in that dance for centuries to come. It is from 38 to 100 times as far from the Earth as the moon, and it's not large -- about 100 meters or 300 feet, roughly the distance between two goal lines on an American football field and much smaller than some space satellites. It is beyond the usual range of space satellites in Earth orbit, some of which can be visible in a small telescope.
http://www.businessinsider.com/earth-sec...ho3-2016-6
It (2016HO13) a captured asteroid, it has apparently been in a gravitational dance with the Earth for about a century and it could remain in that dance for centuries to come. It is from 38 to 100 times as far from the Earth as the moon, and it's not large -- about 100 meters or 300 feet, roughly the distance between two goal lines on an American football field and much smaller than some space satellites. It is beyond the usual range of space satellites in Earth orbit, some of which can be visible in a small telescope.
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