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2020-02-27 Science & Technology

Earth has a new mini-moon: Asteroid the size of a washing machine has been orbiting Earth for the past three years

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Posted by Skidmark 2020-02-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Catalina Sky Survey May Tag 2020 CD3 as Harmless, Non-life Threatening.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-02-27 02:53|| 2020-02-27 02:53|| Front Page Top

#2 I'm not saying it's aliens - because they monitor the internet.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-02-27 04:53|| 2020-02-27 04:53|| Front Page Top

#3 Other local neighbors.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-02-27 08:33|| 2020-02-27 08:33|| Front Page Top

#4 Ah, I was wondering where I left that.

Posted by SteveS 2020-02-27 09:46|| 2020-02-27 09:46|| Front Page Top

#5 So is a tiny chip off of an asteroid called a bloomberg?

Posted by swksvolFF 2020-02-27 10:21|| 2020-02-27 10:21|| Front Page Top

#6 ^ We'd better put into a booster orbit

Posted by Frank G 2020-02-27 10:26|| 2020-02-27 10:26|| Front Page Top

#7 Put it into a geosynmikros pattern.

Posted by swksvolFF 2020-02-27 10:54|| 2020-02-27 10:54|| Front Page Top

#8 At last! a moon we can nuke.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-02-27 12:47|| 2020-02-27 12:47|| Front Page Top

#9 I say we mine it for science and profit.

Posted by DarthVader 2020-02-27 15:44|| 2020-02-27 15:44|| Front Page Top

#10 Size of a washing machine.
Something of an eccentric orbit.
Be cool to land some instrumentation and watch it wobble off on it's merry way.

Posted by Skidmark 2020-02-27 16:31|| 2020-02-27 16:31|| Front Page Top

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