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An asteroid that was discovered riding along in Earth's orbit is about 1.2 km wide and might remain as a hitchhiker with our planet for at least 4 000 more years while posing no danger, scientists said on Tuesday.
For only the second time ever, researchers have found an asteroid riding along in Earth's orbit as our planet's constant companion.
An asteroid that was discovered riding along in Earth's orbit is about three-quarters of a mile (1.2 km) wide and might remain as a hitchhiker with our planet for at least 4,000 more years while posing no danger, scientists said.
Our planet has a celestial sentry leading the way around the sun, and it's only the second Earth Trojan asteroid ever discovered.
Trojan asteroid, also called Trojan planet, is any one of a number of asteroids that occupy a stable Lagrangian point in a planet's orbit around the Sun