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First Earth Trojan Asteroid Discovered

The Bad Astronomer writes "Astronomers have found the very first Earth Trojan asteroid, a rock that more-or-less shares Earth's orbit around the Sun. Seen in data by NASA's WISE mission, 2010 TK7 is about 300 meters across and leads the Earth by 60 degrees around the Sun. Trojans have been seen for Jupiter, Neptune, and Mars, but this is the first for our planet."

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  1. Trojans! by Oxford_Comma_Lover · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... the very first Earth Trojan asteroid,

    Curse its sudden but inevitable betrayal.

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  2. Run Away!!! by SomewhatRandom · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well, now, uh, Launcelot, Galahad and I, wait until nightfall, and then leap out of the asteroid, taking the French, uh, by suprise. Not only by suprise, but totally unarmed! ...*Who* leaps out?

  3. Re:L4 by Jah-Wren+Ryel · · Score: 2, Funny

    Rumour spreadin' a-'round in that Texas town
    'bout that rock outside La Grange
    and you know what I'm talkin' about.
    Just let me know if you wanna go
    to that stone out on the range.
    They gotta lotta nice girls ah.

    Have mercy.
    A haw, haw, haw, haw, a haw.
    A haw, haw, haw.

    Well, I hear it's fine if you got the time
    and the ten to get yourself in.
    A hmm, hmm.
    And I hear it's tight most ev'ry night,
    but now I might be mistaken.
    hmm, hmm, hmm.

    Ah have mercy.

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