From Stephen Sandiford
Hethersett, Norfolk
Congratulations to Paul Wiegert and his colleagues on their discovery that
asteroid 3753 is trapped in an orbit of the Earth
(In Brief, 14 June, p 13).
However, his comment that “no one had anticipated this sort of thing” is not
quite accurate. In his epic Beelzebub’s Tales to his Grandson, the
philosopher and science fiction writer G. I. Gurdjieff, who died in 1949, wrote
about two objects orbiting the Earth: the Moon and a small fragment which he
called Annlios.
May I respectfully suggest that this asteroid might in future become known as
“asteroid Annlios” rather than the more prosaic 3753 in recognition of
Gurdjieff’s perspicacity?
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