asteroid as second moon, how will earth react?

a reply to: matafuchs

That's the scary part i suppose.

So guys and gals and others, what name are we going to give to our new transient moon? We need a contest to name it.

I think it should be called the piper if it causes strange hornlike sounds to form from the earth like they occasionally do.

a reply to: wrayth

You were right to ask your questions. It WILL have an influence, however only in a Buddhism sort of way; that is to say that the physical/gravitational influence will be so very miniscule that it will not be measurable by any instrumentation that exists on Earth or in orbit. This is a great comparison by BeyondKnowledge3:

Does a fly affect your body in any way when it flies by ten feet away from you?

I would guess that it's influence will be even less than that. Still, it exists, just can't be measured.

Oh yeah. The Buddhism way. All things affect every other thing. This is to suggest that even the smallest change can affect slightly larger things and so on and so on such that the initial impetus lead to a large change.

Butterfly Hamlet: To flap, or not to flap, that is the question.




Don't mind me. My mind wanders and is easily affected by minutiae.

a reply to: argentus

As the Buddhist monk selling vegan hot dogs said to the Punk who sarcastically asked "Can you make me one with everything?", gave him a tenner and then demanded his change.

"Change, must come from within".

My mind wanders, too.

a reply to: rickymouse

How about, "Tiny"?

a reply to: Oldcarpy2

Micro Moon.

originally posted by: matafuchs
Yeah. These are the same scientists who did the math on that Mars Lander and we know how that turned out. I would like to know what will happen if it decides to swing back around and hits earth.

It is traveling pretty slow, so it could either radically change it's path direction when it gets out, or maybe spiral in towards earth slowly. It's path could take it into the same orbit as earth if it does change radically, or possibly it will start to act like the asteroid in orbit with earth in the horseshoe orbit it has.. Or it could be swung into the horseshoe asteroids orbit and hit that asteroid and make a bunch of baby asteroids that could give us a pile of fireballs in the future.

Lots of possibilities, but it will change it's orbit or path and who knows what will happen. Chances of it becoming a threat to us are pretty low it appears. But you know how it goes, we have not been very lucky on this planet as of late.

a reply to: Oldcarpy2

Wonder what Allah, the moon god, is going to say about this ?

a reply to: andy06shake

Button Moon?

youtu.be...

a reply to: Oldcarpy2

I had forgot all about that show.

Mind the The Moomins, The Clangers as well?

a reply to: andy06shake

The Moomins was great. Weird, but great.

Then of course there was Captain Pugwash, and those rumours weren't true.

There wasn't a Master Bates or a Seaman Stains...

a reply to: andy06shake

I have a Dark Side of the Button Moon tee shirt.

a reply to: wrayth

An asteroid flyby would have topped off the view this weekend.