Friday, 4 April 2014

Of Chaand, Chakors and Earth

Chaand ko kya maalum
Chaah ta hai use koi Chakor

Thus goes a song of those days.

Chakor ko kya maalum ki
Earth ke ek nahi do-do Chaand hai

What's even more intriguing is the fact that Earth has not one but two Moons. One is the familiar orb we see every night and Another small asteroid that was captured by earth's gravitational pull. Scientists have discovered that an asteroid hitherto circling our Sun has entered into orbit around the Sun on a path that perfectly coincides with that of our Earth. Strictly speaking the said asteroid doesn't orbit our Earth, like our Moon does, more like it follows the earth around the sun. We can't see it because it is too small an object and moreover it always lags behind earth in its orbit around the Sun.

So koi Chakoron ko jaake bathaye yeh baat taaki, they can be more specific as to which Chaand are they referring to.

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