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Title: [NSS]NASA?s WISE Mission Finds First Trojan Asteroid Sharing Earth?s Orbit
Post by: Feed Bot on July 28, 2011, 01:15:34 AM

NASA?s WISE Mission Finds First Trojan Asteroid Sharing Earth?s Orbit

PASADENA, Calif. – Astronomers studying observations taken by NASA’s  Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission have discovered the  first known “Trojan” asteroid orbiting the sun along with Earth.
Trojans are asteroids that share an orbit with a planet near stable  points in front of or behind the planet. Because they constantly lead or [...]

Source: NASA?s WISE Mission Finds First Trojan Asteroid Sharing Earth?s Orbit (http://blog.nss.org/?p=2887)