2008 LC15, the first Trojan asteroid discovered in Neptune's L5 point
13 Aug 2010, 15:52 UTC
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Congratulations to Scott Sheppard and Chad Trujillo for identifying the first known L5 Trojan asteroid of Neptune! This story is not just interesting because it is a first-of-its-kind discovery, but because of the tricky way that the astronomers went about searching for it, and because of the collateral benefits that their search will have for the New Horizons mission. Here's the newly discovered body, a little blip moving against background ....
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