• grue@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    [Its] orbit (technically around the sun, not Earth)

    I think that disqualifies it from being a moon.

    Also, I would think that if anything other than a legitimate Earth orbit qualified, it would be the trojans at the Lagrange points before it would be any other sorts of Earth-crossing orbits. But I don’t think even they qualify either.

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      2 months ago

      Quasi-satellite is the technical name, which clarifies it’s exact relationship to it’s orbit between the Earth and Sun. Moon is not a technical name.