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NASA's WISE mission finds first Trojan asteroid sharing Earth's orbit
Seeded on Wed Aug 10, 2011 3:01 PM EDT
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Yes! This is great news, I'd always wondered why they hadn't found (or even if there were and) any Trojan asteroids for Earth. I am a bit surprised that these can get so near though (the 15M miles within 100 years), seeing as the Lagrange points are 60 degrees off of Earth's orbit, or where it currently is (50M miles).
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