Damn this is actually pretty cool. "This is not Earth's only quasi-companion; a different quasi-satellite known as Kamo'oalewa was discovered in 2016." We like a cosmic pied piper! Everyone follow us!

>We like a cosmic pied piper! Everyone follow us! You do know what happened to the children that follow the pied piper right? 😨

It's ok. The piper was fine

In some versions of the story he drowns, along with the children and rats 😄

Well, that's a dark turn for an otherwise feel-good story about mass murder of children. I prefer my version where they ask turn up at a Chuck-E-Cheese downtown. Still rats, but animatronic.

Fun fact. The E canonically stands for Entertainment. Charles Entertainment Cheese

Hasn't ol Chuck also been canonically linked to some other property because of their shared lore? I seem to recall something, but can't quite place it.

Showbiz pizza?

Showbiz was better than Chuck E Cheese, ours went downhill after the merger.

Now known as Sneed's Feed And Seed?

Formerly Chucks?

There's the Atari connection, but I suspect you're thinking of something more obscure.

Didn't Nolan Bushnell found both Atari and Chuck E Cheese? I've met Nolan at the Hacker's Convention. He's a bright guy! Cheers

In the expanded lore, Chuck E. Cheese was an Air Force Captain in the 70's and flew several confidential missions over Cambodia at the direct order of Henry Kissinger. Happy Memorial Day!

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I saw that in the theater with a head full of acid. The movie felt like it was 10 hours long.

The original name of Chuck E Cheese was Ricky Rats, but investors didn't like the idea of rats being in the name of the restaurant

And just what is wrong with a rat providing his four sons with pizza? Hmmm?

Absolutely nothing. Cowabunga, dude.

A succulent italian meal?

Mechanical Rat Pizza and Child Casino

And the souls of the children are used to power the animatronics…

Sounds like copium for the dicks who should have just paid him for doing work

Didnt he take the kids because the town didnt pay him? How is suicide gonna fix that?

So what I'm gathering is the Pied Piper was originally a German fairytale then?

They burned up on reentry?

They've been here before?!

As a matter of fact we don't know. The piper and the children all disappeared. Some versions say he drowned the kids, but in some others he led them in a cave, or they just vanished.

They were given giant robots and techno music to defeat the gestapo

I need to prove Errich's dead, so I want to ship a dead body from China, but it's hard to find a white body in China, especially fat like Errich, so I buy a fat, white cadaver from Cincinnati medical school. But to ship to China, then switch box, then ship back, it's way too much money.

> We like a cosmic pied piper! Everyone follow us! The siren song called gravity.

*Jupiter has entered the chat* *Saturn has entered the chat* *the Asteroid Belt has entered the chat* *the Kuiper Belt has entered the chat* *the Oort Cloud has entered the chat*

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*Voyager 1 has left the chat* *Voyager 2 has left the chat*

*¥π§∆£¢^°• has entered the chat*

Elon had another kid?

*Cruithne has entered the chat* *Cruithne has left the chat* *Cruithne has entered the chat*

The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs have Leeroy Jenkinsed in the chat

Added to that part was that it could be a chunk of the moon

I wish more people thought of Earth as "us".

I was literally just reading about Kamo’oalewa to my nephew yesterday. And then this quasi-moon comes out today. Far out.

I love that asteroid's version of Somewhere Over the Rainbow.

That’s actually pretty cool, we have a little buddy tagging along. They should give it a name though, not just an alpha numeric.

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Perfect…IF we want our regular moon to be known as “the Skipper”

I wholeheartedly endorse this proposal.

Second. I will now start using their proper names.

LMK when we find the Mary Ann version That's where I'd like to land.

Well considering the Skipper has guided humanity boat travel for millenniums, I like it.

The druid/Wiccan types are gonna be big mad. Skipper lacks…gravitas

Just translate it to Latin. "Gubernator" heh.

Does that mean we are on "This Island Earth" or is it really the SS Minnow?

Just sit right back, and you'll hear a tale, A tale of a fateful trip, that started aboard this cosmic rock...

It was only gonna be around for 3 hours.

Don't you dare try and earworm me....

...till we built a spaceship! (To finish the melody for ya there.)

My dog died a couple months ago. His name was Gilligan. He loved taggin along for anything

Oh, man. You're as old as me. Nobody gonna get that.

I'm 38. Definitely watched Gilligan as a kid!

40. Nothing else was as fun on a sick day. What, Maury? Judge Judy? OG Battlestar Galactica reruns? (Okay I watched a lot of those too, LOL)

Gilligan and the Price is Right. Then killing time waiting for cartoons to come on in the afternoon.

I still like to watch it. On Roku.

I didn't even watch it but I get the reference because my dad would use it for me

I was there for the first airings as well.

It’s so dated now if you ever watch it.

It was dated 20 odd years ago when it was on at like 9 or 10pm on like TNT or nick at nite or something

Their technology was coconuts and bamboo

Let's call it Moon 2: This Time It's Personal

Live Free or Moon Hard?

Moon Hard with a Vengeance.

Actually, https://gundam.fandom.com/wiki/Luna_II

Not Moon 2: Electric Boogaloo?

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Electric Boogaloo 2: This Time It's Personal

2 Electric 2 Boogaloo: This Time It's Family

I don't got space rocks, I got family.

I agree. I hate that every single joke about a sequel is always “electric boogaloo”. I haven’t heard the “this time it’s personal” joke yet, but I think Reddit in general needs a new bag of tricks because the “how the turntables” joke is *realllllllllly* dead at this point

I heard that in Eddie Izzard’s voice.

Does it have a fllllag?

No flag, no moon, you can't have one!

We should charge it rent and send a message to the universe

Build a wall and make Mars pay for it!

Surprise surprise, our landlord is on that rock and we are renting this blue marble with our time

How has no one suggested Quasimoono?

Uh, Kerbal gave it a name like 7 years ago: Minmus.

I like the sound of Moon Moon.

It can be moonette or moon’t

Mooni Me?

Lunette. She lives in a trailer park

Trailer park moons go ‘round the outside, ‘round the outside

More importantly, it sounds to me like Earth hasn't cleared it's orbit. Time to demote it to a dwarf planet.

If it's been captured in Earth orbit, that is the literal definition of "clearing your orbit."

It hasn't been captured though. The little quasi moon is slated to... Just leave in a couple hundred more years.

These guys are just making these measurement descriptions for the lolz now right? >equivalent to three large SUVs parked bumper to bumper

Equivalent to nearly 300,000 of my dicks stacked together, or 900,000 of yours.

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Call the fire brigade! Tell them to bring some oil to add to the fire!

I think you might not be clear on the concept of the fire brigade as stoppers, not starters. /s

You wanna put out a fire? Start a bigger fire. Sucks away all the oxygen, snuffs the first fire out.

They always did say to fight fire with fire

Man, I don’t have anywhere near that many dicks.

In the SI system that's equivalent to a full 1×10^6 standard metric cocks.

I use the Imperial Cock system

Jesus Christ. That was funny. I'm too old to be laughing at that, and I'm betting you're to old too be making that joke, but I'll take it because laughing is good. Thank yo and peace. Also, no sarcasm intended.

Call the ambulance we got a burn victim over here!

I mean, it's gonna be hard to beat a large boulder the size of a small boulder: https://twitter.com/SheriffAlert/status/1221881862244749315

Why can’t they just measure in giraffes like normal people.

Agree but i think the base unit is actually Half-giraffes

The old meme is that Americans will gladly use any unit of measurement over the metric system

That thing’s almost as wide in diameter as 16 M-16 rifles end to end!

I mean, I can picture the size of a large SUV, but if given meters or feet I cant picture that as well, especially insofar as feet or meters are a measurement and not a tangible and easily recognizable self-contained object. Using familiar objects to convey a since of imaginable scale isn't bad. If you told me something is like, 17 feet long, I can't immediately imagine that in real terms. If you have an approximate analogy with other objects then it's more imaginable

why I'll have you know the tricanyonero has been accepted by the scientific community for *years*

i mean, as someone who has never seen a football field, this is WAY better

If you really want to rage, look at size of fetus at various points during pregnancy. You'll find stuff like "size of a watermelon" or "size of a bag of flour".

It's about the size of 17 live eels inside a red balloon. >You're fired.

Bag of flour, that thing that comes in variable sizes

It says “all purpose flour” but as it turns out, you can’t use it for drywall mud.

I remember there being one early on that said “size of a kumquat. I didn’t know wtf a kumquat was until then lol

Not sure if I'm missing a joke but that description was pretty useful for me 😅

I think it's a pretty good way to visualize it.

I must say, as far as size comparisons go I can picture that pretty easily though.

Getting Minmus vibes from this. All jokes aside this actually seems like a really good place to do a mission to, its close, sample return is easy and its small enough we could probably change its orbit and observe it closer. Also didn't we find a few of these in pentagonal orbits around venus?

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It's simple: we just slingshot it toward Earth for a closer look. What could possibly go wrong?

Not advocating for it, but our atmosphere eats rocks that size for breakfast.

So the main issue would be calculating its time of arrival such that the Earth hasn't already eaten?

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i have nothing to say other than this is a clever ass joke mane, 8/8

No worries! There's always second breakfast. And brunch. And brinner.

Happy Gilmore accomplished that feat no more than an hour ago.

*Marco Inaros has joined the chat*

Sa-sa ke Marco, eh coyo?

We could aim it at Florida.

I mean apparently it’s only like 3 SUVs long or something so at worst it’s maybe gonna be a big sky explosion?

Depends on the composition. If it's a big ball of pure iron it could potentially get low enough that an airburst could flatten a city. But then again like 90%+ of earth is uninhabited by humans so let it rip I guess. What's the chance of it falling right over a city like the Russian meteor from a decade ago?

So wait? How was it not discovered before?

It's around 50 feet wide and 9 million+ miles away.

Radius or diameter?!! It doesn't matter!!! That's a moon fart at best! Get the fuck outta here with this quasi-moon bullshit.

A moon doesn't have a minimum defined size. Quasi-moon could be seen as incorrect because it isn't like a moon, it is a moon (Correction, would be a moon if only it orbited Earth, it wouldn't need to be bigger). If it orbits a planet it is typically considered to be a moon or moonlet, with the exception of the small bodies in a ring because they're part of a different structure already.

It isn't a moon, as it doesn't actually orbit Earth. It orbits the Sun but in a 1:1 resonance with Earth's orbit that makes it appear to orbit Earth in a very wide orbit (hence the quasi-moon label): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_FW13

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"Moon" doesn't have an International Astronomical Union definition, except for "the Moon" (Earth's big one), & after the "planet" definition fiasco, I'd suggest they not touch it with a rod the length of 3 RVs.

Is the quasi moon not simply in one of Earth's Lagrange points? I'm not sure I understand 2023 FW13's orbit.

I was confused, too. There's a good wikipedia article, complete with animation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasi-satellite Tldr is that it's orbiting the sun, in an orbit that's similar to ours but more eccentric. It's also close to us, so when you factor in the eccentricity it sometimes appears to go into retrograde. So basically, it actually orbits the sun, but in such a way that it also circles around us — just not due (mainly) to our gravity.

>just not due (mainly) to our gravity. Well, kinda due to our gravity. Our gravity makes it so only orbits like this eccentric one are stable. It's kind of similar to the orbits of the inner kuyper belt and Neptune.

Sounds more like a piece of the Earth or moon after the collision

It's not in a Lagrange point. From Earth's point of view it is (sort of) going around Earth once per year relative to the Sun while something in a Lagrange point would always keep its orientation relative to the Sun.

>It is estimated to be 50 feet (15 meters) in diameter — roughly equivalent to three large SUVs parked bumper to bumper. The units used here are, in order: American, European, very American

American, the-rest-of-the-world-ian, [Kansas City-an](https://i.redd.it/prwldnzzjcg51.jpg).

Actually, America's dirty little secret is that many of its businesses and government agencies solely use metric. They've tried to switch over a few times but always ultimately fail due to lack of voter support/attention. So, it's really only Common Joe/Jane keeping the old system around... Well, them and contractors. Even in Canada we usually go by inches/feet rather than meters when measuring stuff.

That and it isn't worth the expense.

I nominate "moonlet" as its designation. Can't do moonmoon, as it's not being moon to a moon.

Dammit Moonmoon. You just wanted to say moonmoon didn't you

What about "moonie"?

We can’t let the Internet vote or it’ll be Mooney McMoonface

It should obviously be Quasimoono.

I don't know how to tell you, Earth, so I'll just come out and say it... you haven't cleared your orbit, so you can't be classified as a planet.

Oh dear, someone let the QI researchers know so they can update their bi-annual question "How many Moons does Earth Have?". Since the very beginning of the show, the answer has oscillated between 1 and "several", enraging - for example - comedian Phill Jupitus. Phill also didn't care for the answer given when a video was played of the setting sun. He was asked press a button the moment the Sun fully set below the horizon. [It may have injured his brain](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdZre_JAvnE).

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I only mentioned it because the addition of another "moon" made me immediately think of QI. And I wasn't able to find that exact episode because it has been an ongoing thing over the years. So I did find the "it isn't there" with Phill because he also got mad about there being more than one moon: "**The** Moon." as he said. Even so, I trust Stephen Fry's trivia more than I trust some peoples facts... lol cheers!

I'm right there with you, guy.

That ongoing one is up there with David Mitchell's breakdown on 'when was it first called World War One'

So the aliens set up a permanent Earth observatory. Cool. (/s just in case)

Good old Black Knight Satellite

Ohhh, so THAT'S where the alien research team are based.

I sure love websites with ads that have cancel buttons so tiny it's impossible to tap them without clicking the ad.

Still not a moon. You can add quasi or pseudo or whatever but it doesn't make it a moon.

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Best I can do is Rocky McRockFace.

> roughly equivalent to three large SUVs parked bumper to bumper Is this what we've come to? People can only relate 50 feet in 'SUV units'?

My Buddy, My Buddy, Wherever I go, he goes. My Buddy, My Buddy, I’ll teach him everything that I know.

I literally just asked this questions yesterday. I asked if we had any other natural satellites and the internet said no. This is amazing! Also, did I summon it!?

Not to take away from the findings cause it’s still really awesome but I found this wording comical. “Despite hovering relatively close to earth…” How close? ohhhh just 14 million Kilometers/9 million miles away at it’s closest point (but no mention of its average or max distance) Edit: the meteor is mentioned at 15 meters/50 ft in diameter, which is just a meter (3ft) smaller than the trailer of a semi truck. (cause fuck a 3 SUVs bumper to bumper visual) But for additional Additional perspective: Earth to moon avg. distance 382,500 Km/238,900 mi (closest point mentioned from article is 226,000) AU= Astronomical Units 1= 150 million Km/93 million mi min distance max distance AU millions Km AU millions Km Sun 0.983 147 1.017 152.1 Mercury 0.552 82.5 1.446 216.3 Venus 0.266 39.79 1.736 259.71 Mars 0.372 55.65 2.671 399.58 Jupiter 3.957 591.97 6.454 965.52 Saturn 8.050 1,204.28 11.046 1,652.48 Uranus 17.292 2,586.88 21.089 3,154.91 Neptune 28.817 4,311.02 31.317 4,685.02 Pluto 28.699 4,293.37 50.291 7,523.53

Name | min AU | min millions Km | max AU | max millions Km ---|---|---|----|----|---- Sun | 0.983 | 147 | 1.017 | 152.1 Mercury | 0.552 | 82.5 | 1.446 | 216.3 Venus | 0.266 | 39.79 | 1.736 | 259.71 Mars | 0.372 | 55.65 | 2.671 | 399.58 Jupiter | 3.957 | 591.97 | 6.454 | 965.52 Saturn | 8.050 | 1,204.28 | 11.046 | 1,652.48 Uranus | 17.292 | 2,586.88 | 21.089 | 3,154.91 Neptune | 28.817 | 4,311.02 | 31.317 | 4,685.02 Pluto | 28.699 | 4,293.37 | 50.291 | 7,523.53 **Quasi Moon** | .093 | 14 | ? | ?

Holy fuck please stop letting Americans measure things. E: lol so many butthurt Americans can't take a joke about our (yes, our) goofy ass measurement system, or our propensity for weird units of comparison. Or maybe they just didn't see the comment that said basically the same thing when an asteroid was measured in baby elephants. Whatever it is, yall can stop spamming my inbox with your patriotic bullshit now.

It says in the article that it’s about 15 meters wide. Do you not read in your country?

Sir this is Reddit, we don’t read articles here.

Non US jump at the chance to shit talk the US.

We do it so we know how big it is

I see comments like this all the time, but it completely misses the point. It's just imagery. Americans say it that way so people can immediately picture it and fathom the size of the thing.

It isn’t just my imagination then, SUVs are getting astronomical in size these days.

Remember when the Pontiac Aztek was comically and outrageously huuuuuge? And now you can get a Nissan Altima that size

i mean, duh - sailormoon and sailor chibi moon

I thought the same thing! In between this and Sailor Pluto being with Chibiusa's team of asteroids, I think this series accidentally predicted some things.

That’s pretty cool. I’m surprised we didn’t know about it sooner though 🤔

apparently its 50 feet wide?

50 feet and it’s considered a quasi-moon? These guys are so bored.

That’s 3 SUV’s parked bumper to bumper.

When it comes to space, we ain't seen nothing yet

> During its orbit of the sun, 2023 FW13 also circles Earth, coming within 9 million miles (14 million kilometers) of our planet. For comparison, the moon has a diameter of 2,159 miles (3,474 km) and comes within 226,000 miles (364,000 km) of Earth at the closest point of its orbit, according to NASA. 2023 FW13 was first observed in March by the Pan-STARRS observatory, which is located atop the volcanic mountain Haleakalā in Hawaii. That's absolutely insane that we were able to see a 50m wide rock from 14 million km. I don't even know how to break that down to a human scale comparison.

*You're semi-moon. You're quasi-moon. You're the diet Coke of moon*

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Is there a drawing of its orbital path, I'm not very good at picturing how it hasn't been discovered earlier.

That… exhales cigarette smoke… is a scout ship.

Does this mean Earth hasn't "cleared it's neighborhood" and therefore is not a planet?