{"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’s Second Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just found out Earth has a second moon, called Cruithne<\/a>. There may be a third<\/a>, but most people think it’s space junk. And according to this paper<\/a>, there are two more asteroids in “resonant orbits”. But unfortunately they are called 1998 UP1 and 2000 PH5. Unless and until they come up with some cool Celtic names<\/a> for these, they aren’t going to get much PR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just found out Earth has a second moon, called Cruithne. There may be a third, but most people think it’s space junk. And according to this paper, there are two more asteroids in...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t