{"id":715256,"date":"2022-02-01T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=715256"},"modified":"2022-02-01T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T16:00:00","slug":"newly-discovered-asteroid-just-second-of-its-kind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=715256","title":{"rendered":"Newly discovered asteroid just second of its kind"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Asteroid<\/p>\n

You may have heard of the Trojans, two vast swarms of asteroids that lead and trail Jupiter on its orbit around the Sun.<\/p>\n

But the king of the planets doesn\u2019t hold a monopoly on Trojan asteroids. The physics that gives rise to the formation of these distinctive collections of ancient rocks is the same for all planets \u2013 including Earth.<\/p>\n

While the existence of Earth Trojans had been theorised for many years, the first direct observation of one was confirmed just over a decade ago. Since then, no second Earth Trojan had been discovered \u2013 until now.<\/p>\n

In this Q&A, Toni Santana-Ros (TSR<\/b>) from the University of Alicante and Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona, and Laura Faggioli (LF<\/b>) from ESA\u2019s\u00a0Near-Earth Object Coordination Centre<\/a>\u00a0(NEOCC) explain the importance and challenges behind the discovery of the second Earth Trojan asteroid.<\/p>\n


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\nSource: ESA Space News <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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