Thursday, September 26, 2013

Asteroid, or the third stage of the Saturn V rocket from Apollo 12?

J002E3 is a object that was discovered in Earth orbit in 2002. It was initially thought to be an asteroid, but turns out that it was probably the S-IVB third stage of Apollo 12.

It was off in a heliocentric orbit for 31 years, made a brief 6-orbit visit home, and now it's off galavanting around the sun again. May get captured temporarily again in 2040.





2 comments:

  1. Maybe one day it will be part of an orbiting museum?

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  2. Or it will be something worst...
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S_vG6CI0T8

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