{"id":136293,"date":"2022-03-03T04:34:39","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T12:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/existence-of-earth-trojan-asteroid-confirmed-could-become-ideal-bases-for-advanced-exploration-of-the-solar-system"},"modified":"2022-03-03T04:34:39","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T12:34:39","slug":"existence-of-earth-trojan-asteroid-confirmed-could-become-ideal-bases-for-advanced-exploration-of-the-solar-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/existence-of-earth-trojan-asteroid-confirmed-could-become-ideal-bases-for-advanced-exploration-of-the-solar-system","title":{"rendered":"Existence of Earth Trojan Asteroid Confirmed \u2014 Could Become \u201cIdeal Bases\u201d for Advanced Exploration of the Solar System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zHmS3EglehY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I have often mentioned how useful it would be to relocate an asteroid to lunar orbit to serve as a counterweight for a rotovator \/ skyhook.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Data from NSF\u2019s NOIRLab Show Earth Trojan Asteroid Is the Largest Found The SOAR Telescope, part of NOIRLab\u2019s Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, has helped astronomers refine the size and orbit of the largest known Earth Trojan companion. By scanning the sky very close to the horizon at sunrise, the SOAR Telescope in Chile, part of Cerro-Tololo Inter-American Observatory, a Program of NSF\u2019s NOIRLab, has helped astronomers confirm the existence of only the second-known Earth Trojan asteroid and reveals that it is over a kilometer wide \u2014 about three times larger than the first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have often mentioned how useful it would be to relocate an asteroid to lunar orbit to serve as a counterweight for a rotovator \/ skyhook. Data from NSF\u2019s NOIRLab Show Earth Trojan Asteroid Is the Largest Found The SOAR Telescope, part of NOIRLab\u2019s Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, has helped astronomers refine the size and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}