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Ten Things You Don't Know About the Earth

Posted September 09, 2008 11:44 AM

From Neatorama:

Phil Plait at Bad Astronomy Blog (which is now a part of the Discover Magazine website) has some interesting facts about Mother Earth. Did you know that there are at least four natural objects in space that stick near the earth? They are sometimes referred to as moons, but they aren't quite moons.

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09/10/2008 5:15 PM

Cruithne, huh? Odd I'd never heard of it. Thought I'd pretty well exhausted near-Earth trivia. Well, just shows to go ya! Interesting entry, glad it showed up here!

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