Are There Trojan Asteroids in Jupiter's Orbit?

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Trojas are very interesting population of asteroids. They are in stability points. Jupiter is sitting there trying to swat them away, but it's just out of reach. Lucy mission will explore objects from both of these camps - Trojans and Greeks. And they're telling us something about how the solar system was built.

Neil has his own asteroid?! On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Marcia Belsky answer fan questions about different types of asteroids with Marina Brozovic, orbital dynamicist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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Photo Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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