21-10-2005, 15:17
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Re: Did you know?
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Originally Posted by basa
Not strictly an earth moon, more a large asteroid that has temporarily been 'captured' by earths gravity. It actually divides its time between orbiting the sun and earth in a horseshoe orbit. See space.com.
There could at any time be many 'moons' orbiting earth temporaraily, but a lot depends on whether you call them moons or asteroids or dust particles. 
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I call them 'Martin'
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