New type of Trojan asteroid discovered near Jupiter has an orbit like an asteroid but the tail of a comet- Technology News, Firstpost
New type of Trojan asteroid discovered near Jupiter has an orbit like an asteroid but the tail of a comet- Technology News, Firstpost
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A rare kind of space object, which is something between an asteroid and a comet, has been discovered by astronomers. It has been called an active asteroid.
The newly discovered asteroid named 2019 LD2 has an orbit like an asteroid but the tail of a comet. While not entirely unknown, what makes 2019 LD2 special is that it shares Jupiter’s orbit in an…