Trojan Asteroid Shares Orbit with Earth Artist Animation
This artist concept illustrates the first known Earth Trojan asteroid, discovered by NEOWISE, the asteroid-hunting portion of NASA WISE mission. The asteroid is shown in gray and its extreme orbit is shown in green. Objects are not drawn to scale.
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NASA ID
PIA14404
Date Created
July 27, 2011
Center
JPL
Media Type
image
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