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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