 Newly discovered Trojan asteroid shares Earth's orbit
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Jhackulon wrote ... and sits in a gravitational sweet spot just ahead of Earth That'd be the fourth of fifth legrange point, wouldn't it? If it was rich in a reasonably rare resource, then I guess it would be kinda worthwhile trying to bring it back to earth, but I'd be mining the moon's 4% titanium dioxide first. Sounds like it, especially them giving it the "trojan" name.
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"L4 and L5 are sometimes called triangular Lagrange points or Trojan points. The name Trojan points comes from the Trojan asteroids at the Sun–Jupiter L4 and L5 points, which themselves are named after characters from Homer's Iliad (the legendary siege of Troy). Asteroids at the L4 point, which leads Jupiter, are referred to as the "Greek camp", while at the L5 point they are referred to as the "Trojan camp". These asteroids are (largely) named after characters from the respective sides of the Trojan War.
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