Earth's Elusive 'Trojan' Asteroid Is Finally Spotted

Meera Dolasia
2011-07-31T22:38:10-07:00

A team of scientists led by Martin Conner from Canada's Athabasca University have finally spotted what has been eluding scientists for centuries - Earth's very own 'Trojan' asteroid - One that share its orbit around the sun, but travels at a stable point ahead or behind, so that there is never any danger of colliding with it.