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Breaking News: Asteroid Discovered Orbiting Our Moon? (+Video)
Breaking News: Asteroid Orbiting OUR MOON?
http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.gr/2016/04/breaking-news-moon-may-have-asteroid.html
XG02E65 as possible asteroid in moon orbit!!!
Based on magnitude the object is 16-20 meters!
Spectral data indicates that this is NOT man-made object and is a rock, asteroid.XG02E65 = possible radar target, needs astrometry.
A possible ‘mini moon’ out there?
Other Object:
SONEAR asteroid survey discovered anobject in geocentered orbit yesterday,
with PANNSTARS later providing precovery imagery from a week earlier.
The object is called S509356 and is in a weird distant
orbit with apogee at half a lunar distance, perigee
near geosynchronous altitude. Inclination 48 degrees, period 3.58 days.
Thanks to the ‘LUNAR METEORITE HUNTER’
for the ‘HEADS UP’.
Visit THE LUNAR METEORITE HUNTER for more info.
http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.gr/
Image credit: ESO
