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To: smokingfrog
2016 HO3, as the asteroid is called, is at least 40 meters across and could be larger, up to 100 meters, researchers say, but it’s too far from Earth to qualify as a true satellite or mini-moon.
“Since 2016 HO3 loops around our planet, but never ventures very far away as we both go around the sun, we refer to it as a quasi-satellite of Earth,”
???
So make up your mind! I’ve never heard of the criteria that it has to be X distance to be a “moon”. If it is in a stable orbit around Earth, then it is a moon.
2 posted on
06/16/2016 10:54:54 AM PDT by
VanDeKoik
To: smokingfrog
Or maybe at the right time 2016 HO3 will make a not-so-soft landing here. Something like that is definitely coming soon, maybe within this century.
3 posted on
06/16/2016 10:56:27 AM PDT by
Jim W N
To: smokingfrog
How soon can this be blamed on (1) global warming, (2) homophobia, (3) Islamophobia, or (4) a member of the Bush family?
To: smokingfrog
So, IIRC, one of the reasons given to demote Pluto was that it had been unable to clear its orbit of smaller bodies (not a moon, of course)?
5 posted on
06/16/2016 10:57:16 AM PDT by
Rurudyne
(Standup Philosopher)
To: smokingfrog
7 posted on
06/16/2016 11:05:47 AM PDT by
moovova
To: smokingfrog
To: smokingfrog
NASA should land on this, attach a few rockets to it and then give it as a gift to all the mooselimbs in mecca.
I am sure we can overnight it at several thousand miles per hour.
as part of mooselimb outreach...of course!
10 posted on
06/16/2016 11:07:22 AM PDT by
GraceG
(Only a fool works hard in an environment where hard work is not appreciated...)
To: smokingfrog
Sounds like a candidate for a base of some sort.
11 posted on
06/16/2016 11:08:09 AM PDT by
fella
("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
To: smokingfrog
NASA released a photo of it:
12 posted on
06/16/2016 11:08:19 AM PDT by
Talisker
(One who commands, must obey.)
To: smokingfrog
It’s Farrakhan’s mothership, perhaps?
13 posted on
06/16/2016 11:09:32 AM PDT by
HombreSecreto
(The life of a repo man is always intense)
To: smokingfrog
Quasi moon.
It's the other end of this guy.... 
16 posted on
06/16/2016 11:13:25 AM PDT by
DannyTN
(is)
To: smokingfrog
"That's no moon!"
To: smokingfrog
What’s it’s composition?
Be great if it’s got fuel/carbon on it.
19 posted on
06/16/2016 11:18:55 AM PDT by
mrsmith
(Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
To: smokingfrog
If it’s in orbit it’s a satellite. What do they teach in college these days?
27 posted on
06/16/2016 11:42:43 AM PDT by
Seruzawa
(All those memories will be lost, like tears in rain.)
To: smokingfrog
29 posted on
06/16/2016 11:53:04 AM PDT by
Yashcheritsiy
(You can't have a constitution without a country to go with it)
To: smokingfrog
That explains why my horoscope is always wrong.
-PJ
34 posted on
06/16/2016 11:59:47 AM PDT by
Political Junkie Too
(If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
To: smokingfrog
It's a stealth ad campaign by 20th Century Fox.
37 posted on
06/16/2016 12:12:14 PM PDT by
Bratch
To: smokingfrog; Lazamataz; Old Sarge; JRios1968
To: smokingfrog; SunkenCiv
To: smokingfrog
I think they speak High School French up there.
47 posted on
06/16/2016 5:11:43 PM PDT by
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