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Meet Earth's 'Quasi-Satellite' - A Tiny Asteroid That's Followed Us For A Century
Earth has only one true natural satellite: the moon. But now scientists have found a fellow satellite of the sun that's been our constant companion for more than 100 years. Because of the way the space rock wobbles in orbit, it actually circles our own planet in addition to circling the sun.
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Earth Has a Constant Companion in the Form of a Tiny Asteroid: Study
"Since '2016 HO3' loops around our planet but never ventures very far away as we both go around the Sun, we refer to it as a quasi-satellite of Earth."
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Tiny Asteroid Becomes Earth's Constant Companion
Our Earth has got a small companion. NASA scientists have discovered a tiny asteroid in an orbit around the Sun that keeps it as a constant companion of Earth and will remain so for centuries to come.
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Meet Earth's 'Quasi-Satellite' - A Tiny Asteroid That's Followed Us For A Century
Earth has only one true natural satellite: the moon. But now scientists have found a fellow satellite of the sun that's been our constant companion for more than 100 years. Because of the way the space rock wobbles in orbit, it actually circles our own planet in addition to circling the sun.
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Earth Has a Constant Companion in the Form of a Tiny Asteroid: Study
"Since '2016 HO3' loops around our planet but never ventures very far away as we both go around the Sun, we refer to it as a quasi-satellite of Earth."
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Tiny Asteroid Becomes Earth's Constant Companion
Our Earth has got a small companion. NASA scientists have discovered a tiny asteroid in an orbit around the Sun that keeps it as a constant companion of Earth and will remain so for centuries to come.
