Did You Know Earth Has A Few Extra Moons?

innerverse (63)in #science • 9 years ago

Asteroid 2016 H03 orbits the sun about once a year in an elliptical fashion, which actually causes it to circle around the Earth.

You could say it's not a "real" moon because it's not exclusively circling Earth, as it is technically in orbit around the sun. However, our main-moon Luna is actually quite the anomaly in our solar system, being that it is so large and its origins so mysterious. There are many satellite/planet systems in our neighborhood that have relationships similar to Asteroid 2016 H03 and good old Earth.

That's not the only extra moon Earth is dancing with. Meet 3753 Cruithne.

3753 Cruithne, discovered in 1997, takes a very interesting "horseshoe" path in its orbit around the inner solar system, and orbiting the Earth in a quasi-satellite fashion. Saturn has moons like this. It's only about 5 kilometers across (big enough to wipe us out if we collided though), and it does come pretty close to our home at certain points in its orbit. The next close encounter will be in 2750.

Metaphysical Significance?

Recently I read "The Revolutionary Psychology" by Samael Aun Weor. Well, I had a computer lady voice read it to me on Youtube. He mentioned the Earth having a second, "dark" moon which he called Lilith. In Occultism, Lilith is thought to be the dark manifestation of the Divine Feminine, causing us to succumb to more base and fearful modalities of consciousness. Many occultists hold that our moon system itself is a construct of some or mostly an artificial nature, possibly designed as a technology for holding souls into a cycle of reincarnation on this planet. The reason for this might be to ensure that only souls of a significant spiritual lightness are allowed to pass through. A different metaphor might be that an ego must be smaller than an atom to pass through the spaces between the physically solid reality hologram that we're embedded within. Just speculating on others' ideas here.

Thoughts?

References:
https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v387/n6634/pdf/387685a0.pdf
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=6537
http://www.sciencealert.com/earth-might-actually-have-a-second-moon
http://theconversation.com/earths-other-moon-and-its-crazy-orbit-could-reveal-mysteries-of-the-solar-system-38010