[HighWheeler]

BTW, did you know the Earth actually has a second moon?

It is called Cruithne (pronounced crew-EEN-ya). It is about 3 miles across.

It also has a highly irregular orbit around the Earth defined mathimatically as a Lagrange orbit. It takes 770 years to complete the horseshoe shaped orbit around Earth.

[blam]

"BTW, did you know the Earth actually has a second moon?"

No I didn't, thanks.

BTW, the Eros spacecraft survived the crash landing on the asteroid. (To everyone's amazement)

[Axenolith]

3 mile asteroid in a Lagrange point = Build to suit space station!

[Lokibob]

BTW, do you know the earths moon is the only large body in the solar system that we havn't named?

We call it "MOON" like a caveman. All the moons of the other planets have been named except ours.

[Eala]

BTW, did you know the Earth actually has a second moon? It is called Cruithne (pronounced crew-EEN-ya). It is about 3 miles across.

What's the origin of the name? It looks Gaelic (Scottish Gaelic or Irish), but I don't know the word and it's not in my dictionaries. The nearest word I can find translates as "Buckwheat"... (was somebody having a little fun there?)