03-29-2019, 06:51 AM
(03-28-2019, 06:47 PM)stevebowers Wrote: Cruithne is the closest thing we have to a Lagrangian asteroid - it is 5km long, and was discovered in 1986. So, no. An Earth/Sun Trojan would probably be missed in the 1960s, but we would probably have seen it by now.
Excellent fit on size and a good example.
But Cruithne never gets closer than 12 million kilometers from Earth. The proposed stealthy asteroid is about 400,000km from Earth.
Mike Miller, Materials Engineer
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"Everbody's always in favor of saving Hitler's brain, but when you put it in the body of a great white shark, oh, suddenly you've gone too far." -- Professor Farnsworth, Futurama