hey hey hey, did you know that...
hey hey hey, did you know that...
...Earth's second moon is called Cruithne. It was discovered in 1986 and it takes a convoluted horseshoe path around our planet as it is tossed about by the Earth's and the Moon's gravity.
			
			
													
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second moon is called Cruithne.
get it right :@
			
			
									
						
										
						get it right :@
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Re: hey hey hey, did you know that...
he got it rightMKJ wrote:second moon is called Cruithne.
get it right :@
Re: hey hey hey, did you know that...
This is good news, did you tell NASA.
			
			
									
						
										
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oh bugger, I shall have it fixed.MKJ wrote:second moon is called Cruithne.
get it right :@
Cannot have me misquoting this little bugger...
Re: hey hey hey, did you know that...
looks like you fail at q3wology.spl1ff wrote:he got it rightMKJ wrote:second moon is called Cruithne.
get it right :@
Re: hey hey hey, did you know that...
again?  why?
			
			
									
						
										
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ITS TRUE I SAW IT ON QI AND STEPHEN FRY WOULDNT TELL PORKIES.
			
			
									
						
										
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wow eraser is a moron...he thinks asteroids that orbit around the sun with almost equal revolution times as earth are moons of the earth...rofl?...
			
			
									
						
										
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http://www.quake3world.com/forum/search ... mit=SearchMKJ wrote:looks like you fail at q3wology.
The 'moon' part was slowly added in....it's how language works i guess...i dont blame you
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earth is a moon of the sun, if you want to look at it that way
			
			
									
						
										
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it's not a moon by any conventional definition of the term.  just an asteroid with a weird orbit that kind looks like a moon from the earth's pov if you squint.
if you have celestia, you can get this guy's quasi-satellites addin to give you cruithne to watch.
			
			
									
						
										
						if you have celestia, you can get this guy's quasi-satellites addin to give you cruithne to watch.
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Re: hey hey hey, did you know that...
Earth's second moon is called Cruithne. It was discovered in 1986 and it takes a convoluted horseshoe path around our planet as it is tossed about by the Earth's and the Moon's gravity.