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Are there any images that better compliment the article than this one? it seems rather roundabout.
"no other natural object apart from the Moon is in orbit around the Earth" - is this true? Can Cruithne not be described as accompanying the Earth in its orbit? TheVenerableBede 11:13, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)
However, "Clouds of dust, even fainter than the notoriously weak gegenschein, are also present in the L4 and L5 of the Earth-Moon system." -- Lagrange point. If I understand correctly, this means those dust particles *are* in orbit around the Earth. --DavidCary 04:43, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Should this article not be called S-IVB-507? Sine we figured out what it is, the name J002E3 is a bit of a distraction. The S-IVB-507 article could talk about the part's manufacture, testing, and flight as well as its re-discovery as J002E3. It would also be more appropriate then to include pictures of S-IVB-507 from a time when it was much closer to the camera. -- ke4roh (talk) 17:04, 18 February 2011 (UTC)Reply
I added the reimpact risk edit because I'm genuinely curious about the risk if/when this object impacts earth. I'd presume that it'd be roughly the same as lofting a 10 tonne object 60km or so and then dropping it. That is, I'd guess it would be substantial, but smaller than nuclear or even conventional weapons, but smaller than a regular 10 tonne meteor impact from another trajectory. If someone with better knowledge could set my mind at rest about a 10 tonne meteor we might have hurled at ourselves.... Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.199.245.37 (talk) 04:49, 4 April 2013 (UTC)Reply
There's a phrase that needs to be rewritten: "These objects entered from low Earth orbit or ballistic trajectory, with less energy than J002E3 might possibly have if it were to enter from Solar orbit." — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gustavoexel (talk • contribs) 08:25, 7 June 2016 (UTC)Reply
The article says "Further examination revealed that the surface appeared to contain the paint ..." -- im tempted to insert a request for citation -- do anybody know how that was done? Sorenriise (talk) 02:23, 3 August 2014 (UTC)Reply
" ...spectral observations of the object indicated a strong correlation of absorption features with a combination of human-made materials including white paint..."
I came to this page from the page about Titanium Dioxide, where it explicitly states ... well, why don't you read it. Last sentence of the paragraph called "Pigment".
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I find it noteable one can find J002E3's trajectory in a .gif meme related to "the joke" vs "you" situation of missing joke.
Interestingly, in l33t-speak, "joke" can be obfuscated into "jooqee", while 0 can be substitute O, 3 can substitute 3, and 2 looks like calligraphic Q.
Since the S-IVB stage is an (artificial) quasi-moon of Earth, can't we figure out its Earth MOID, that is, how close to Earth it may come during its current orbit? And it will come close to Earth in the 2040s again, so there should be some estimate how close it would come just like Apophis' perigee is predicted quite precisely now. Glasfaser Wien (talk) 14:00, 17 July 2023 (UTC)Reply