Study: Earth shares its orbit with tiny asteroid

http://www.physorg.com ^ | July 27, 2011 | By MALCOLM RITTER

[Reeses]

called Trojans

It's a black hole bomb normally hiding behind the Sun placed there by aliens. It's being towed into position.

[Waverunner]

3 football fields, better than our current trailer park in space.

[Talisker]

Donald K. Yeomans, manager of NASA's Near-Earth Object Program Office, who didn't participate in the discovery, agreed that the asteroid is a Trojan. Most scientists suspected Earth had them, he said, and "I would guess there's others.

Me too.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Fiddlstix for the link.

Thanks Red Badger for the topic. Thanks 300 yard across asteroid for not yet falling down on us. :')

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[fanfan]

I wonder how long it’s been there.

[SunkenCiv]

Not sure there's any way to tell. My view is, these companion bodies have provided most of the big impact events on the Earth, so it would behoove us to find out.

Additional topic:

• Trojan asteroid tags along on Earth's orbit

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