Company To The Moon?

When we look up at the night sky, we see a sea of stars flooding the dark carpet of the cosmos. We made friends with these stars a long time ago. But there is another unforgettable companion in the dark skies - our Moon. We can never imagine a night without the Moon. It has been in the night sky and in our minds from times unknown. Now, we have only one moon, or maybe not......

We know that there is this thing called the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. There are tons and tons of asteroids here. They are orbiting the Sun there because of the effect of gravity by Mars and Jupiter. Occasionally some asteroids get too close to the planets and start orbiting them for only a little while. This is the most common for the planets Mars and Jupiter. Sometimes, the asteroids get too close to the Sun and orbit the inner planets like the Earth. This is what is going to happen again this year. But........... Instead of an asteroid, this time, we are going to have an old rocket part as a satellite . 

Asteroid 2020 SO, as it is formally known, is actually the Centaur upper rocket stage that successfully propelled NASA's Surveyor 2 lander to the moon in 1966 before it was discarded. The lander ended up crashing into the moon after one of its thrusters failed to ignite on the way there. The rocket, meanwhile, swept past the moon and into orbit around the Sun as intended junk, never to be seen again—until perhaps now.

This rocket is approaching the Earth at 1,500 mph (2,400 kph), slow by asteroid standards. This is one of the reasons, astronomers were able to figure out that this object is not really a space rock, as both the rocks and space junk appear to be dots in the sky. 

This rocket will act as a satellite to our Earth, but only temperorily. 

So, we may not be able to see this new temporary satellite with an unaided eye. Who would want to see it beside our own satellite, when we can't dare compare another object with our Moon.