The spatial distribution of all PS1 detected Trojans. The solid triangles are the newly discovered Neptune Trojans, and open triangles are the known ones detected by PS1. The positions of Neptune Trojans correspond to their first detections of PS1. The blue circles show the locations of Neptune from 2010 to 2013, and the crosses show the corresponding Lagrange points. Notice that the Galactic Center (GC) overlapped with L5 during 2010 to 2012. Credit: Lin et al., 2016.
An international team led by Hsing-Wen Lin of the National Central University in Taiwan has detected 5 new so-called “Neptune trojans” – minor bodies sharing the same orbit as the planet Neptune. The discovery was made by Pan-STARRS 1 (PS1) survey...
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