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NauenThen

Mooning

I've always thought it was kind of a ripoff that of our solar system's 293 moons, Saturn has 146, Jupiter 75, even Mars has 2, teeny little not-even-always-a-planet Pluto has five, and we've got... one. One measly moon. So I'm excited that right now, & until November 25 (don't you love that they already know when the breakup will occur?), we've got a second moon. Or to be more exact, "a mini-moon" that's 33 feet long and needs a professional telescope to be seen. Still! Could be the start of something big! 

 

And it is: we're getting an asteroid in 2029 that can be seen by the naked eye. 

 

(If that link doesn't work, search for an article in The Washington Post called "For 57 days this fall, Earth will have a second moon.")

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