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Wednesday, 11 September 2002
Huh?

I try not to re-post links from Fark, but this one blew my mind: Astronomers may have found Earth's third moon. Third?!?! I never knew we had two! So... Luna, Cruithne and a moon to be named later.

I dunno; is Cruithne (pronounced cru·een·ya) actually a moon? It's technically an asteroid, but Phobos and Deimos may be C-type asteroids, too. On the other hand, at 5 KM diameter, it's less than half the size of Deimos. Does size matter when classifying something as a moon? I don't know. What I do know is that some joker named it after some Celtic goddess whose name is pronouced even less like it's spelled than most French words.

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