The case for a deep search for Earth’s Trojan asteroids

Renu Malhotra

doi:10.1038/s41550-019-0697-z

The case for a deep search for Earth’s Trojan asteroids

Renu Malhotra

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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.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	193-194
Number of pages	2
Journal	Nature Astronomy
Volume	3
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-019-0697-z
State	Published - Mar 1 2019

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