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voidxMA to FuturologyEnglish · 9 months ago

Earth to have new mini-moon for two months

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Earth to have new mini-moon for two months

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A pair of asteroid dynamics researchers from Universidad Complutense de Madrid Ciudad Universitaria have found that a small asteroid will make one orbit around the Earth starting this month before departing back into other parts of the solar system.
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    That’s smaller than Hubble.

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      It’s not the size of your mirror that matters …. Oh I guess it is

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      damn I didn’t realise Hubble was that big

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