- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Besides the big one that we all probably know of, we have lots of man-made stuff orbiting us and at least a few discovered natural objects orbiting us. How many moons we have depends on what qualifies as a moon. Some don't consider our biggest satellite to be a moon, but part of a binary world since it's about a whole hundredth of our mass. In astronomical terms, that's pretty close. We also share our orbit around Sol with at least two other objects, which might be considered moons. For those interested, one's called Cruine (Say croo-een-ya. It's named for some tribe-like group or somethin'.) or some such, while the other's got a catalog designation I can't remember. The answer also depends on what qualifies as orbiting, too. I guess we could say that we and Sol are co-orbiting our common centre of gravity, or that the whole solar system is co-orbiting, or the whole -blam!-in' galaxy, or...
Edits are in bold.
[Edited on 6/2/2004 6:10:27 PM]