From: spike66 (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Sun Sep 22 2002 - 19:13:03 MDT
Harvey Newstrom wrote:
> Amara Graps wrote,
>
>>1. Cruithne is not a satellite of the Earth.
> I, myself, was confused about this until recently. A lot of the
> descriptions of Cruithne describe it as a second moon. The diagrams of the
> orbit also are misleading and look like it loops around the earth... Harvey
Ja, but depending on how ya look at it, the moon
doesnt go around the earth either. The moon's
orbit is everywhere concave around the sun. Of
course it is a more wobbly looking ellipse than
the earth's, but when the moon is between the
earth and the sun, it is being pulled more strongly
by the sun than by the earth. So one could argue
that the earth and the moon co-orbit the sun.
Assuming one likes to argue such things. {8^D
I still want to go out and jump aboard Cruithne
and make something useful out of it. (Before Robert
gets there and makes it into an M-brain.) spike
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