[Newsbot]

Title: Earth has 'secondary moon'
Category: Science
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2011-07-28 08:15:16
Canadian

[sandorski]

It's the Mothership!

[DrCaleb]

Arrrrg! I hate science 'reporters' sometimes. It's an asteroid, sharing the same orbit as the Earth. It doesn't orbit the Earth, therefore it's not a 'moon'!

[Gunnair]

I'm excited about the Dawn mission - the images of Vesta are amazing.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/dawn/news/dawn20110728.html

I'm even more excited about the New Horizons mission to Pluto - which now has four moons!

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/newhorizons/main/index.html