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Message: <blockquote data-quote="circle-5" data-source="post: 74861" data-attributes="member: 3037"><blockquote data-quote="BAROBA">We still have 2 other small moons orbiting the Earth, some scientists believe that they wore parts of those ancients rings (or perhaps clouds?).</blockquote>If you are referring to Cruithne, the only credible scientific evidence shows it is an asteroid, and its orbit is not even around the Earth, but around both the sun and the Lagrange L-2 point. I feel that calling this another moon, or even a quasi-satellite is a bit of a stretch. I've also never heard of another secondary moon, except perhaps the S-IVB stage of AS-507 (Apollo 12), which re-entered Earth orbit during 2002-2003, but has since been ejected.</blockquote>