new moon?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2251386.stm

maybe its just space junk, but I can think of dozens of cool sci-fi movies
that could start this way!

thanks to this article, i learned of Cruithne:

http://www.astro.queensu.ca/~wiegert/3753/3753.html

http://burtleburtle.net/bob/physics/cruithne.html

this is a perfect example of the planetary RESONANCE phenomenon that
got a lot of press on the tuning list a while back (Cruithne is
locked into a 1:1 resonance with Earth).