I read it in a site. it wuz dicovered 1700s i think but it travels around earth in 4 hours. its a asteroid or meteor or some thing, but waddyu think? u believe it?
2006-12-02 06:08:02 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Actually, Earth may have up to three moons. The most recently discovered, called Cruithne, is some sort of icy asteroid in a really bizarre orbit that makes it, only arguably, a moon of Earth. The second such "moon," according to a story on NPR's Wait Wait Don't Tell Me may actually be an old and apparently untracked bit of space hardware.
2006-12-02 07:45:20 · answer #1 · answered by The Armchair Explorer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe the International space station? What qualifies as a moon? Something that orbits the earth?
There is an asteroid that shares an interesting orbit with the earth, and you might consider that a moon.
2006-12-09 03:15:52 · answer #2 · answered by ~XenoFluX 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are at least two large asteroids that sort of behave like moons of Earth. The best known is named Cruithne. Although in some ways these objects act like our moons, they are not true moons because they're not gravitationally bound to Earth but simply have orbits in tune with our own.
See this website for more info ==>http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/blobrana/database/cruithne.htm
2006-12-02 07:12:17 · answer #3 · answered by Chug-a-Lug 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
kinda sparkling that we purely have one moon, inspite of the undeniable fact that it quite is technically obtainable to earnings extra occasion: it takes an merchandise of basically 500 miles huge to weigh down itself right into a ball shape like a planet, some thing could bypass basically close sufficient to earth to capture its orbit and orbit the earth. yet we don't have 2 moons.
2016-10-17 15:00:44 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no there is not a second moon
mercury: 0 mmons
venus:0 moons
earth:1 moon
mars: 2 moons
Jupiter: over 60 moons
saturn: about 26 moons
Uranus: 18 moons
2006-12-02 09:51:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, not a natural one...
But if you consider non-natural satellites as "moons," then we have literally thousands that we put up there ourselves :)
Look, I'm an astronomer and astrophotographer -- I've looked at and imaged nearly every degree of the sky -- if there were another moon of earth, I'd have seen it by now. I haven't, and neither has anyone else.
2006-12-02 06:28:01 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
there isnt another moon in orbit with the earth but there could be an astroid or meteor in orbit with us.
2006-12-02 06:23:17 · answer #7 · answered by cooper 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, not a permanent orbiter.
2006-12-02 07:31:03 · answer #8 · answered by Awesome Bill 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
may be..
2006-12-02 06:14:39 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋