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The potential to really open a new window into the history of our solar system when Lucy gets to the Trojan asteroids is ...
The first official Trojan was discovered February 22, 1906, by German astronomer Max Wolf. Eight months later, August Kopff discovered a second asteroid near Jupiter’s L5 point; the following ...
For billions of years, Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids have orbited undisturbed, preserving chemical and physical clues from the ...
NASA has released the first-ever high-resolution image of the main-belt asteroid Donaldjohanson, highlighting its unique peanut shape.
A little-known fact to the general public is that there's more moving around Jupiter's orbit than just the giant gas planet.
On Wednesday, Nov. 1, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will make its first flyby of an asteroid, zooming past space rock Dinkinesh before heading to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids.
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is on its way to Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids for a chance to get a closer look at the primordial rocks. But before its scheduled arrival at the Trojans in 2027, Buie and ...
What you might now know, though, is that two of Jupiter’s asteroid swarms have left astronomers scratching their heads for decades now. The L4 and L5 Jupiter Trojan swarms are two clusters that ...
JUPITER — A proposed ballot question that would require Jupiter voters to approve the creation of a local fire department fails to pass several legal tests and runs afoul of the town’s home ...
Rare ‘Trojan’ world may share the same orbit as another planet (CNN) — Astronomers may have found a rare “sibling” that shares the same orbit of a Jupiter-like planet around a young star.
JUPITER — A proposed ballot question that would require Jupiter voters to approve the creation of a local fire department fails to pass several legal tests and runs afoul of the town’s home ...