Asteroid 2020 XL5 is the second Trojan asteroid ever discovered. It's three times larger than the only other known Earth Trojan, called Asteroid 2010 TK7, which was confirmed in 2011 .
The newfound Trojan is at a Lagrangian point that has it orbiting ahead of Earth in the two bodies' shared path and the asteroid will stay there for 4,000 more years, researchers reported Tuesday (Feb. 1) in the journal Nature Communications .
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Mini-Neptunes and Super-Earths: How puffy planets could be the missing link - SlashGear
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Date: 2022-02-04T21:24:30 00:00
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