Sunday, 26. October 2003

The earth had two moons for awhile this year


The motion of J002E3, showing how the object was captured into its chaotic orbit around the Earth by passing near the L1 point, looping around the Earth for 6 orbits, and then leaving Earth's orbit. The Sun is to the left in these animations. Animations created by Paul Chodas and Ron Baalke.

¬> NASA

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