The case for a deep search for Earth's Trojan asteroids
Abstract
The existence of Earth's Trojan asteroids is not well constrained and represents a major gap in our inventory of small bodies in near-Earth space. Their discovery would be of high scientific and human interest.
- Publication:
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Nature Astronomy
- Pub Date:
- February 2019
- DOI:
- 10.1038/s41550-019-0697-z
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1903.01922
- Bibcode:
- 2019NatAs...3..193M
- Keywords:
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- Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- Nature Astronomy, 3, 193-194 (2019)