Mars and Island One

--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "victoriatangoman"
wrote:
> --- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "Combs, Mike"

> wrote:
>
> > That's a good point. When you think about it, it's a darned
shame
> > Earth doesn't have a Deimos-like satellite within
spitting
> > distance of GEO. We'd probably have SPS from space
resources
> > already.
>
> While most of us would sanction the consumption of a small
moonlet,
> the Gaians would go ballistic at the destruction of Mother
Nature's
> gift to us. To transform a *natural* moonlet into a O'Neill
Habitat
> monstrosity would get them all riled up.
>
> TangoMan

Earth does acquire moonlets from time to time... IIRC last year
there was one in a strange horseshoe-shaped orbit going from L4 to
L1 to L5.

Ed