Comment on What would life be like if we had 2 moons? With 2 different lunar cycles, how would we tell which time of the year it is without months?

Oneeightnine@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  We only have one moon of any size that we know of - earth temporarily captures asteroids a lot, but they’re not in a long-term stable orbit and so only orbit the earth for a few years before escaping

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  • Oneeightnine@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Thanks for the heads-up. It would appear I was wrong.

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  • Infynis@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I believe this is what they’re talking about businessinsider.com/puzzling-near-earth-asteroid-…

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• octoperson@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’ve heard people describe the asteroid Cruithne as earth’s second moon (the chat show QI did a bit on it, and it’s in a Steven Baxter novel). But I think that’s kind of a misleading description - it orbits the sun not the earth, just in a way that regularly syncs up with the earth’s orbit.

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