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New asteroid discovered in stable horseshoe orbit around the earth
- bediger 16y agoRead close: the "horseshoe" is only relative to Earth itself. Encounters with Earth moves the new asteroid from an orbit inside that of Earth's to an orbit outside that of Earth's I'd be interested in seeing a heliocentric plot of the orbit, over along period.
- hugh3 16y agoAn animation would be even better. But yeah, basically we're talking about a standard-pants elliptical-looking orbit which occasionally gets perturbed by the Earth.