{"id":7552,"date":"2016-06-16T16:04:30","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T23:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=7552"},"modified":"2016-07-01T16:07:33","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T23:07:33","slug":"earths-quasi-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2016\/06\/16\/earths-quasi-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth&#8217;s Quasi-moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/33185-earth-quasi-moon-asteroid-2016-ho3.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from Space.com<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Surprise! Newfound Asteroid Is &#8216;Quasi-Moon&#8217; of Earth<\/h1>\n<p>By\u00a0<span class=\"author\">Mike Wall<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/images\/i\/000\/056\/250\/i02\/asteroid-2016-ho3-quasi-moon.jpg?1466060345\" alt=\"The newfound asteroid 2016 HO3 has an orbit around the sun that keeps it as a constant companion of Earth.\" \/>The newfound asteroid 2016 HO3 has an orbit around the sun that keeps it as a constant companion of Earth. <em>Credit: NASA\/JPL-Caltech<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It seems the moon is not Earth&#8217;s only cosmic companion.<br \/>\nThe newly discovered asteroid 2016 HO3 orbits the sun in such a way that the space rock never strays too far from Earth, making it a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/33182-newly-discovered-asteroid-is-quasi-satellite-of-earth-orbit-animation.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;quasi-satellite&#8221; of our planet<\/a>, scientists say.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One other asteroid \u2014 2003 YN107 \u2014 followed a similar orbital pattern for a while over 10 years ago, but it has since departed our vicinity,&#8221; Paul Chodas, manager of NASA&#8217;s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/news\/news.php?feature=6537\" target=\"_blank\">said in a statement<\/a>\u00a0Wednesday (June 15).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This new asteroid is much more locked onto us,&#8221; Chodas added. &#8220;Our calculations indicate 2016 HO3 has been a stable quasi-satellite of Earth for almost a century, and it will continue to follow this pattern as Earth&#8217;s companion for centuries to come.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, 2016 HO3 is the best example of an Earth quasi-satellite ever found, scientists said.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/33185-earth-quasi-moon-asteroid-2016-ho3.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at Space.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Space.com Surprise! Newfound Asteroid Is &#8216;Quasi-Moon&#8217; of Earth By\u00a0Mike Wall The newfound asteroid 2016 HO3 has an orbit around the sun that keeps it as a constant companion of Earth. Credit: NASA\/JPL-Caltech It seems the moon is not Earth&#8217;s only cosmic companion. The newly discovered asteroid 2016 HO3 orbits the sun in such a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}