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Title: Got Moon?
Post by: diamondgeezer on September 11, 2002, 09:30:10 am: It's mine, I tell you! (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2251386.stm)

Out of interest, anybody here read Earth to the Moon (the Jules Verne one, before anybody goes all Tom Hanks on me).
Title: Got Moon?
Post by: Styxx on September 11, 2002, 10:22:01 am: Meh, I didn't even know about the second one... :p
Title: Got Moon?
Post by: CP5670 on September 11, 2002, 10:24:50 am: Quote
Paul Chodas of Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California says it must have just arrived or it would have been easily detected long ago.

This is what I think as well, or it may well be a piece of trash. :D
Title: Got Moon?
Post by: Styxx on September 11, 2002, 10:25:53 am: Quote
Originally posted by CP5670
This is what I think as well, or it may well be a piece of trash. :D

Or an alien starship... :D
Title: Got Moon?
Post by: an0n on September 11, 2002, 10:27:06 am: It's the Asgard I tells ya. Just you wait. A few days from now there'll be a huge fireball in the sky and the existence of a huge trans-stellar transportation device will be announced by the US millitary.

I hope to God it's a huge chunk of Uranium 235 with a thin outer-layer of carbon-boron blends.
Title: Got Moon?
Post by: diamondgeezer on September 11, 2002, 10:30:39 am: :wtf:?
Title: Got Moon?
Post by: Styxx on September 11, 2002, 10:31:19 am: Quote
Originally posted by diamondgeezer
:wtf:?

He's probably babbling something related to Stargate: SG-1... :p
Title: Got Moon?
Post by: an0n on September 11, 2002, 10:32:24 am: Quote
Originally posted by Styxx

He's probably babbling something related to Stargate: SG-1... :p
It's the Eye Of Ra!!!!! Run for your lives!!!!! AAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGHHH!!!!!!!!!!!
Title: Got Moon?
Post by: Stunaep on September 11, 2002, 10:46:22 am: :lol: :lol: :lol:

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Experts say it may have only just arrived.

Yo, I'm, like, the second moon. Mind if i hang around for a while?

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It could be a passing chunk of rock captured by the Earth's gravity, or it could be a discarded rocket casing coming back to our region of space.

Look out!!! A giant asteroid is headed right towards earth!!! no.... wait... it's just fly on my telescope.

Man, this is one of the funniest articles I've ever read. I knew about that second moon thing though, my dad told me that a couple of years ago. Found it hard to believe though.
Title: Got Moon?
Post by: diamondgeezer on September 11, 2002, 10:54:39 am: Quote
Originally posted by Styxx

He's probably babbling something related to Stargate: SG-1... :p

I refuse to belive that anybody could out anorak me with reference to either SG1 or Star Trek that I don't get.
Title: Got Moon?
Post by: an0n on September 11, 2002, 10:59:04 am: Quote
Originally posted by diamondgeezer
I refuse to belive that anybody could out anorak me with reference to either SG1 or Star Trek that I don't get.

Bah!

*goes to find a really big urn*
Title: Got Moon?
Post by: ShadowWolf_IH on September 11, 2002, 10:59:54 am: Actually i tend to beleive what the Egyptians wrote. They saw a star brightenening in the sky, the peiests went nuts because it had to be one of the gods coming, and he didn't look at all happy. Then as the star drew brighter, earthquakes and floods. The priests really freaked. Then it settled into orbit. I give you our moon. This is probably the single greatest account of our moon being a rogue that got caught in the earth's gravitational pull. It's all there, in Heiroglyphics.

Ever wonder if it's in a slowly decaying orbit? And no one has bothered to tell us?
Title: Got Moon?
Post by: Sandwich on September 11, 2002, 11:00:04 am: How large are the 2nd and 3rd moons?
Title: Got Moon?
Post by: an0n on September 11, 2002, 11:01:56 am: Quote
Originally posted by ShadowWolf_IH
Ever wonder if it's in a slowly decaying orbit? And no one has bothered to tell us?

It's not decaying. It gets 2cm further away every year.
Title: Got Moon?
Post by: Cannikin on September 11, 2002, 11:29:53 am: Quote
Originally posted by Sandwich
How large are the 2nd and 3rd moons?

Cruithne is not really a moon as it does not actually physically orbit the Earth but rather (in loose terms) tags along the Earth's orbit. The whole spiraling horse-shoe orbit concept is REALLY weird and I can't really honestly say I understand it. Eventually though in a few thousand years it's supposedly gonna shoot out of this orbit.

ANYWAY... Cruithne is approximately 5km (3.125mi) in diameter, and this so-called 3rd moon is so small that it can be the size of an abandoned rocket causing this controversy.

Oh and for reference: Cruithne is pronounced "croo-een-ya"
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Post by: Razor on September 11, 2002, 11:52:16 am: I almost agree with Styx. There is a slim possiblity that this is an alien space ship. Oh boy! *Get's ready to kick some alien butt!* Rock and roll baby! :D
Title: Got Moon?
Post by: ShadowWolf_IH on September 11, 2002, 12:30:06 pm: Anon, it was a joke..........
Title: Got Moon?
Post by: an0n on September 11, 2002, 12:32:40 pm: Quote
Originally posted by ShadowWolf_IH
Anon, it was a joke..........

Yes, I've heard about those. Some kind of humourous doo-hickey. Not the kind of thing we Ashcroftians go for.

*whistles to snipers*
Title: Got Moon?
Post by: diamondgeezer on September 11, 2002, 03:35:49 pm: Quote
Originally posted by an0n
*whistles to snipers*

[Ghost Stalker] Give me a target [/Ghost Stalker]
Title: Got Moon?
Post by: aldo_14 on September 12, 2002, 01:12:49 pm: It's not april first, is it?

edit; Hmmpppppphhhhhh

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2253385.stm
Title: Got Moon?
Post by: NegspectahDek on September 12, 2002, 05:22:18 pm: Quote
Originally posted by an0n

It's not decaying. It gets 2cm further away every year.

and eventually, it will become tide-locked with the earth.