NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) has found the very first asteroid that (more or less) shares an orbit with Earth! Called 2010 TK7, this asteroid is about 300 meters (roughly 1000 ...
Earth's immense solitude as it traverses the orbital path around the Sun can now be a thing of the past! Earth has got the company of a little asteroid which it can chase around for a little fun in ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...
We are not alone - a small asteroid, 1,000 feet across, has finally been found and it's orbital path shares Earth's orbit. 2010 TK7 teases Earth by straying in the planet's orbit but at the same time ...
The vertical motion of the asteroid (in green) relative to Earth over several years. Paul Wiegert, University of Western Ontario This morning, the discovery of Earth’s first Trojan companion was ...
The first in a long-sought type of asteroid companion to Earth has now been discovered, a space rock that always dances in front of the planet along its orbital path, just beyond its reach. The ...
A screen shot from an animation showing the orbit of 2010 TK7 (the green dots), Earth's first-known Trojan asteroid, discovered by NASA's WISE spacecraftNASA Asteroids have always been the proletariat ...
The first in a long-sought type of asteroid companion to Earth has now been discovered, a space rock that always dances in front of the planet along its orbital path, just beyond its reach. The ...
2010 TK7 is seen as a speck of light in the center of this image, which is the addition of three individual exposures taken with the MegaCam camera at CFHT. The telescope was tracking the motion of ...
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