The scary thing is that “orbit” means continual freefall. Except that you are also going forward, but not fast enough to escape.
Just a little slower, and the moon would crash.
If we went a little slower, we’d crash into the sun.
Then we’d really need to raise taxes!
“Asteroid VH5 2019 will make its flyby at about 17.9 lunar distances on Dec. 8.”
OK, campers. That means the football field-length pointy rock is going to miss us by over FOUR MILLION MILES. Scary.