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Re: Astronomers Find New Class Of Asteriod
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- Subject: Re: Astronomers Find New Class Of Asteriod
- From: Ron Baalke <BAALKE@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov>
- Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 3:30:20 GMT
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>> University of Hawaii astronomers have discovered a new type of
>> asteroid,
>> whose orbits lie completely within the orbit of the Earth. Previously,
>> all
>> known asteroids traveled in an orbit farther from the Sun than the
>> Earth,
>> over at least a portion of their journey.
>Could that have been an Amor, Apollo, or Aten asteroid whose orbit has
>somehow been perturbed by a special planetary alignment or some other
>gravitational force?
That is certainly possible. An object whose orbit crosses near
or over a planet's orbit whill eventually have it orbit perturbed.
Ron Baalke
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