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Title: [NSS]Is an Earth Trojan Asteroid the Logical Target for the ?Flexible Path??
Post by: Feed Bot on July 28, 2011, 07:30:33 PM

Is an Earth Trojan Asteroid the Logical Target for the ?Flexible Path??

Asteroid 2010 TK7 is circled in green.
Image Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / UCLA


Scientists using the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have discovered the first Trojan Asteroid in Earth orbit.  Trojans orbit at a location in front of or behind a planet known as a Lagrange Point.
A video of the asteroid and its orbit at [...]

Source: Is an Earth Trojan Asteroid the Logical Target for the ?Flexible Path?? (http://blog.nss.org/?p=2893)