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Searching for Trojan Asteroids

Searching for Trojan Asteroids

Even as NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope continues to chart new planets around distant stars at an impressive rate, data gathered from another NASA spacecraft, the Wide-field Infrared Observatory (WISE), is shedding light on a particular class of asteroids shadowing planetary orbits in our home system.  Labelled as Trojan asteroids following the initial discovery of  the asteroid “Achilles” in a position ahead of Jupiter in 1906, they can precede or […]

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