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The Astrology of Space
The Trojan Asteroids
One of the most interesting sub-groups of asteroids
are the Trojans. In 1772, the French mathematician
and astronomer Lagrange considered the hypothetical
case of a body of relatively small mass (such as an
asteroid) revolving around the Sun in the same orbit
as a heavy planet. He showed that if the Sun, the
planet, and the asteroid were located at the corners of
an equilateral triangle, the position of the asteroid with
respect to the planet would remain essentially
unchanged.
Such an asteroid was actually discovered in 1906 and
subsequently a group of 15 or so turned up – the
Trojan asteroids. The Trojans fall into two groups: one
group of five asteroids precedes Jupiter in its orbit by
60 degrees of arc and the other ten follow it by that
same angle. Today over 1,000 Trojans have been
discovered and for some unknown reason there are at
77