[cripplecreek]

Seems kind of likely considering how much crap is out there.

[COBOL2Java]

I think we’ve found a home for the Islamists...

[GonzoGOP]

If we had a space program that actually did things in space instead of Muslim outreach this would be a fantastic target. A lot closer than the Asteroid belt so you don't need a lot of delta V to make the rendezvous. Stable, non inclined orbit. Close enough to the sun that you can use Solar rather than NTG. And at 300 meters big enough to explore, but not so large that you need to worry about the liftoff. Just cut the anchor cable and drift away.

Of course you would need to have a budget and a man rated rocket, and the US has neither at the moment. I wonder if Richard Branson wants an asteroid? Of course I always figured he was more likely to go for Vesta.

[RadiationRomeo]

Doesn’t sound like it’s in a lagrange point because the article hinted that it changes the distance to Earth.

Maybe it actually a space probe from the other Earth that is exactly on the other side of the sun. They are watching us and they don’t like the idea of dopplegangers on another planet.

Its only a matter of time before they attack!

[kosciusko51]

There was a similar asteroid found last year, but it was in a horseshoe orbit (see below).

My guess is that this new object orbits around the L4 point, and circles back before it reaches L3.

[Waverunner]

Sounds like a great place to put a real space station. Build it with the asteroid as a sun shield.
Solar power on the sunny side, a space telecope on the back side. Great also for a radio telescope. You could base nuclear powered spaceships there, so that they don’t have to hang around in near earth orbit. Any pictures yet?

[TheBigIf]

I had seen a story of earth sharing its orbit with either a second much smaller moon nearly eight years ago.

[TheBigIf]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3753_Cruithne

[Reeses]

called Trojans

It's a black hole bomb normally hiding behind the Sun placed there by aliens. It's being towed into position.

[Talisker]

Donald K. Yeomans, manager of NASA's Near-Earth Object Program Office, who didn't participate in the discovery, agreed that the asteroid is a Trojan. Most scientists suspected Earth had them, he said, and "I would guess there's others.

Me too.