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NASA Wants to Give Our Moon a Moon
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RE: NASA Wants to Give Our Moon a Moon
January 4, 2013 at 1:07 am
I don’t think the proposal is to place the asteroid in orbit around the moon. The plan is to either place it in the same orbit as the moon where it would become another satellite of Earth, or place it in a Lagrangian L2 orbit in which case it would remain a satellite of Sol.

Somebody asked why. The answer is we want to study asteroids. There has been talk of a manned mission to an asteroid. It would be a lot cheaper to bring the target of such a mission closer to Earth before sending people to check it out than it would be to send people all the way to the asteroid.

Will it happen? When pigs fly. Which considering the rate we are learning about genetics might not be all that far off...
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NASA Wants to Give Our Moon a Moon - by thesummerqueen - January 3, 2013 at 10:57 am
RE: NASA Wants to Give Our Moon a Moon - by Annik - January 3, 2013 at 4:40 pm
RE: NASA Wants to Give Our Moon a Moon - by 5thHorseman - January 3, 2013 at 4:41 pm
RE: NASA Wants to Give Our Moon a Moon - by frankiej - January 3, 2013 at 4:43 pm
RE: NASA Wants to Give Our Moon a Moon - by Anomalocaris - January 3, 2013 at 4:47 pm
RE: NASA Wants to Give Our Moon a Moon - by thesummerqueen - January 3, 2013 at 4:51 pm
RE: NASA Wants to Give Our Moon a Moon - by Cyberman - January 3, 2013 at 5:31 pm
RE: NASA Wants to Give Our Moon a Moon - by pocaracas - January 3, 2013 at 7:25 pm
RE: NASA Wants to Give Our Moon a Moon - by Tiberius - January 3, 2013 at 8:05 pm
RE: NASA Wants to Give Our Moon a Moon - by Annik - January 3, 2013 at 8:41 pm
RE: NASA Wants to Give Our Moon a Moon - by Cyberman - January 3, 2013 at 8:42 pm
RE: NASA Wants to Give Our Moon a Moon - by Darth - January 3, 2013 at 11:09 pm
RE: NASA Wants to Give Our Moon a Moon - by Cyberman - January 3, 2013 at 11:38 pm
RE: NASA Wants to Give Our Moon a Moon - by Rayaan - January 4, 2013 at 12:02 am
RE: NASA Wants to Give Our Moon a Moon - by popeyespappy - January 4, 2013 at 1:07 am

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