Thursday, July 28, 2011

NASA Finds Earth's First Trojan Asteroid


A Trojan asteroid has been found by NASA in the same orbit as the Earth! Here is a link that tells you about it:

NASA's WISE Finds Earth's First Trojan Asteroid - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

And here is an animation that depicts the orbit of the asteroid. It is quite striking that the orbit takes it regularly above and below the plane of the Earth's orbit; enjoy! --

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