[RightWhale]

Let's add a little more technical info, maybe a lurker will be interested. Cruithne's orbit, as seen from the earth, is horseshoe-shaped. When it is near the earth, it is at one end or the other of the horseshoe and above one or the other pole. It would be relatively easy to hop over there, and we should do that as soon as possible. If it is carbonaceous chondrite, that means it has everything a base would need, including water. This needs to be checked out.

[petuniasevan]

Next pass will be under the South Pole at about .3 AU, or around 28 million miles. That's a bit of a trip.
It never gets closer than .1 AU, about 40 times the Earth-Moon distance. And that won't happen in the near future.

Still, we have to move into the "deep end" sometime...space exploration has really hit the skids since I was a goggle-eyed kid watching Armstrong and Aldrin bounce around on the moon.