An optimal Mars Trojan asteroid search strategy

Trojan asteroids are minor planets that share the orbit of a planet about the Sun and librate around the L4 or L5 Lagrangian points of stability. Although only three Mars Trojans have been discovered, models suggest that at least ten times this number should exist with diameters ≥ 1 km. We derive a...

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Main Authors: Todd, Michael, Tanga, P., Coward, D., Zadnik, Marjan
Format: Journal Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/9250