Trojan (celestial body)
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trojan-celestial-body-221-925736
title:
Trojan (celestial body)
text:
In astronomy, a trojan is a small celestial body (mostly asteroids) that shares the orbit of a larger body, remaining in a stable orbit approximately 60° ahead of or behind the main body near one of its Lagrangian points L4 and L5. Trojans can share the orbits of planets or of large moons. Trojans are one type of co-orbital object. In this arrangement, a star and a planet orbit about their common barycenter, which is close to the center of the star because it is usually much more massive than th
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Objects sharing the orbit of a larger one
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_(celestial_body)
date created:
2006-09-22T15:15:07Z
date modified:
2024-09-13T19:15:05Z
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13
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