• skuzz
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    2 months ago

    Gravitational interactions between Earth, Moon, Sun leading to the orbit never really being stable, probably. The asteroid decided Earth orbit wasn’t its’ forever home.

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      Its also very hard to get an object into the perfect orbit that it wont float away. Our moon is slowly drifting farther and farther from us