Trojan asteroid seen in Earth's orbit by Wise telescope

[Archean]

Astronomers have detected an asteroid not far from Earth, moving in the same orbit around the Sun.

The 200-300m-wide rock sits in front of our planet at a gravitational "sweet spot", and poses no danger.

 

[Lokalaskurar]

Sweet, part from that pesky link-404...

 

[Archean]

The BBC link (click on picture) works, somehow the other one (nature.com) is not working.

 

[Lokalaskurar]

Ya, I noticed that

Possibly, the 404 might be a substitute for a 403 error. When I post links to imagery from my personal website, viewers always get a 404 -- which is really a 403 error, as TechSpot is not on my hosts' whitelist.

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I think this can possibly lead to future colonization options. Bit hard to educate 'asteroid-brokers' though. My sheep senses tell me that name would probably be something as silly as 'The Trojan' or 'The Spartan Brokers' or some other cr**

But I wouldn't mind living in an asteroid base. Provided there would be artificial gravity available via centripetal force or anything alike that.

Not that far from home so to speak. But talk about rocket-lag...

 

[learninmypc]

Astronomers have detected an asteroid not far from Earth, moving in the same orbit around the Sun.

The 200-300m-wide rock sits in front of our planet at a gravitational "sweet spot", and poses no danger.

Far out :wave:. Sorry,couldn't resist
Interesting.

 

[mailpup]

FWIW, both links work for me.

 

[learninmypc]

FWIW, both links work for me.

Same here.

 

[Archean]

Strange, both links work now, and picture is showing alright as well, I'm using FF 5.0/IE9.

 

[Lokalaskurar]

I use/used Chrome 11. And whaddaya know, both links work now...