Is This Moon Three?

tetrad writes "The BBC reports that a new object has been discovered orbiting Earth. It's possible that it's just a piece of space junk, but more likely it is a rock that has been recently (in the last year) captured by our planet's gravitational field. If the object is confirmed to be natural, this would be Earth's third moon. (Did you know there were two already?)" Here's our earlier mention of Earth's alleged second moon. Update: 09/12 04:52 GMT by T : Reader cscx adds a link to an article running on space.com which says this newfound object may be some trash from the Apollo missions.

Thistledown

[DCMonkey]

Perhaps we should check inside it [virgin.net]

Re:What's in a moon?

[PTBarnum]

If you look here [infoplease.com] you'll see that the center of gravity is 1000 miles below the surface, not 100 miles.

Re:Suspicious

[cmallinson]

I've not once seen mention of second or third moons on MSNBC, CNN, or any of the other online news places. I'm starting to consider the BBC as the National Enquirer of online news.

That's really backward. The main reason there is nothing about this story on the main page of CNN or MSNBC is that the american news media has barely reported anything non related to 9/11 this week. Comparing these news sources to the BBC is laughable, and an insult to those who provide proper and disinterested news reporting.

If you look at the BBC World Service [bbc.co.uk] news site, there are also many more very [bbc.co.uk] important [bbc.co.uk] news stories that will never make it to the mainstream US media outlets. It doesn't mean those stories are not important, they just don't help sell advertising.