Extra-Solar Asteroids

Via the Science Times discussed, there are visitors from outside our solar system taking up residency here.

An animation depicting the orbit of Jupiter and asteroids known as trojans around the sun. The green line marks the unusual retrograde path of 2015 BZ509, which orbits in the opposite direction of Jupiter as well as most other known objects in the solar system.

Jupiter’s Co-Orbital Asteroids

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