• drspod@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    spinning around Earth in a horseshoe shape for about two months

    what? what kind of orbit is that?

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      2 months ago

      The kind that takes more than 2 months to ‘complete’. From the perspective of the earth it makes a horseshoe shape. From the ‘temporary moon’ perspective it gets a trajectory adjustment on its solar orbit.

      It’s more like a gravity assist that takes 2 months to complete than an orbit.