New Hubble Space Telescope imagery of the Saturn show it's 'ring spokes' in orbit around the gas giant planet. Credit: ...
Saturn seems to have snatched its first known Trojan asteroid, designated 2019 UO14, a few thousand years ago as the space ...
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Astronomers have finally found an asteroid keeping pace with Saturn in its orbit around the sun. Such objects, called Trojan asteroids, are already known for the other three giant planets.
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The new research used previously collected data and refined the calculated orbit to reach the conclusion that 2019 UO14 is a Trojan asteroid associated with Saturn. It probably became trapped at ...
Additionally, because the orbit of this Saturnian Trojan is unstable, Saturn seems to be a terrible parent that will lose this cosmic hanger-on in around 1,000 years. That means astronomers will ...