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Old 21-10-2005, 15:17   #22
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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.
I call them 'Martin'
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