asteroid
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Astronomers Confirm a Second Trojan Asteroid Loitering in Earth’s Orbit
In December 2020, astronomers stumbled upon an object that seemed to be travelling a bit ahead of us in our orbit around the Sun, but they weren’t entirely sure. New observations now confirm this suspicion, revealing the asteroid to be just the second known Earth Trojan.
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Pluto Has a New Hype Squad Declaring It Should Be a Planet, Again
Folks, Pluto might become a planet again. But so too could 150 other bodies such as moons and asteroids. I’m done with 2021 already.
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Astronomers Think a Near-Earth Asteroid Is a Chunk of the Moon
Every April for the next several hundred years, a small asteroid is visible to a select few telescopes on Earth. That asteroid is Kamo’oalewa, a space rock that a team of astronomers says is likely an ancient fragment of our Moon.
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Bizarre ‘Bone’ Asteroid Is Even Weirder Than We Imagined
Astronomers have captured the best images yet of Kleopatra, a 270 km-long asteroid nicknamed the “dog-bone” on account of its unusual shape. The latest observations are offering fresh insights into the object’s shape and precarious spin and how its moons likely came into existence.