{"id":1172,"date":"2002-09-11T18:58:00","date_gmt":"2002-09-11T22:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=1172"},"modified":"2002-09-11T18:58:00","modified_gmt":"2002-09-11T22:58:00","slug":"earths-second-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2002\/09\/11\/18\/58\/earths-second-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth&#8217;s Second Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just found out Earth has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=Cruithne+asteroid\">second moon, called Cruithne<\/a>. There <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/2251386.stm\">may be a third<\/a>, but most people think it&#8217;s space junk. And according to this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.astro.queensu.ca\/~wiegert\/3753\/3753.html\">paper<\/a>, there are two more asteroids in &#8220;resonant orbits&#8221;. But unfortunately they are called 1998 UP1 and 2000 PH5. Unless and until they come up with some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=Cruithne+celts\">cool Celtic names<\/a> for these, they aren&#8217;t going to get much PR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just found out Earth has a second moon, called Cruithne. There may be a third, but most people think it&#8217;s space junk. And according to this paper, there are two more asteroids in&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}