- 3753 Cruithne is a Q-type, Aten asteroid in orbit around the Sun in 1:1 orbital resonance with Earth, making it a co-orbital object.
- Cruithne, sometimes referred to as Earth’s second moon, is an object in space that orbits our Sun, and give Earth some company along the way.
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- (Luna IS a real moon.) But Cruithne is locked into a 1::1 resonance with Earth. (Another resonance in the solar system is the 3::2 resonance of Neptune and Pluto.
- Cruithne's orbit takes it inwards towards the orbit of Mercury, and outside the orbit of Mars. ... The Earth helps maintain the orbit of Cruithne by "shepherding" it.
- Let’s talk about Cruithne – a mysterious object that some consider the “Earth’s second moon”. Read on and find out why this idea came about and how true it is.
- While this might be stretching the definition of moon a bit, Cruithne does have a very interesting orbit which is heavily influenced by Earth.
- Cruithne ( Moon ). Cruithne is an Aten asteroid in 1:1 orbital resonance with Earth, around the Sun, making it a co-orbital object.
- Cruithne orbits the sun every 364 days (1.00 years), coming as close as 0.48 AU and reaching as far as 1.51 AU from the sun.
3753 Cruithne
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- Ağırlığı:1.3×10¹⁴ kg
- İcat tarihi:10 Ekim 1986
- Kaşifi:Duncan Waldron