Sunday, August 16, 2020

That's no moon...

...or is it?

Our little blue planet has apparently captured an asteroid called 2020 CD3.  It's between three and six meters wide.  We now have a temporary second moon.  Or we did, anyway.  According to predictions, it's probably gone already.


I imagine our world's gravity captures all kinds of things like this.  We just don't know about them because we don't have the technology to see things that are that small at those distances.  As the tech improves, though, we'll notice a lot more clutter, I'll bet.

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