NASA is currently looking at capturing a tiny asteroid and placing it in a stable orbit around the Moon, where it could be visited repeatedly by humans.
Such an asteroid would not become a permanent neighbor, however. After a century or so, NASA is considering deliberately crashing the thing into the lunar surface. Of course, by then, residents of the Moon might have something to say about that.
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If the asteroid (meteoroid) were placed at the L4 or L5 Earth-Moon Lagrange points, they could remain there for a few million years.
Of course, the primary purpose of importing asteroid material into cis-lunar space is to exploit them for their water, oxygen, and carbon resources.
Marcel
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