Earth has a Trojan asteroid

[mmcirvin]

Some planets have Trojan asteroids: objects that orbit around the L4 or L5 points, which form an equilateral triangle with the planet and the Sun, ahead or behind it in its orbit. They exist for Jupiter, Neptune and Mars. And, as it turns out, Earth. I feel like we just hit the big time.

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Re: In other news,

[sunburn.livejournal.com]

Well that figures. As a Seattlite, I happen to know many WSU (Wazzu, as it is known here), where they have come to the largest city in the state bearing their rivalry against my own school, the local UW (Go Dawgs.)

Thus I happen to know that WSU is a much more hard-drinking school than UW, despite some heroic efforts by UW Greeks, and now know its terrible consequence: Wazzu drunks would steal the leg off a giant tortoise, probably to drink out of. That leg is probably mouldering in a frat basement, promising health, wealth, and a lifetime of easy lays for whomever drinks therefrom. Ladies love a man who drinks from a tortoise-foot. So goes the legend at Wazzu.