Cruithne: Earth's other moon
Posted: 4/14/2005 12:00:24 PM
By: Comfortably Anonymous
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A second, small moon has been discovered orbiting the Earth in a weird 770 year orbit, and has a cool name too! Krew-Ith-Nee

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/second_moon_991029.html
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Cruithne: Earth's other moon
Posted: 4/14/2005 12:00:24 PM
By: Comfortably Anonymous
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Turns out that Cruithne only APPEARS to orbit the earth, but instead the story gets much weirder.

The link in the first reply has gone dead over the years, but Wikipedia has much more info here.

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