Earth has a Trojan asteroid
Jul. 27th, 2011 08:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Some planets have Trojan asteroids: objects that orbit around the L4 or L5 points, which form an equilateral triangle with the planet and the Sun, ahead or behind it in its orbit. They exist for Jupiter, Neptune and Mars. And, as it turns out, Earth. I feel like we just hit the big time.
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Date: 2011-08-02 04:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-03 06:02 pm (UTC)The solar system's greatest playground for weird orbital dynamics has to be the Saturn system, though. Just about everything's going on somewhere in there.