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Wednesday, July 27, 2011

WISE finds the very first Earth Trojan asteroid

WISE finds the very first Earth Trojan asteroid: "NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) has found the very first asteroid that (more or less) shares an orbit with Earth! Called 2010 TK7, this asteroid is about 300 meters (roughly 1000 feet) across, and is the first in an up-to-now theoretical class of objects called Earth Trojans."

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