Jul 23 2009
Looking Farther (41) – Not Even a Moon
433 Eros is not a planet nor even a moon. Yet this cosmic body orbits the Sun between Mars and Earth. NASA refers to it as a “tumbling space rock.” It is the second largest near-Earth asteroid.
I’m glad I don’t live on a tumbling space rock. I much prefer our partly-cloudy and very wet spinning, space-spheroid.
[photo thanks to NASA]
