LCO Astronomy highlights
This blog maintained by Juan Lacruz.
La Cañada Observatory
, Avila, Spain.
La Cañada Observatory, is an initiative by Juan Lacruz, the observatory started astrometric operations in the summer of 2002, it is registered as station J87 in the
Minor Planet Center
of the
International Astronomical Union
.
The Observatory also participates in the studies on minor bodies promoted by the
Group on Meteorites, Minor Bodies, and Planetary Sciences of the Institute of Space Sciences (CSIC-IEEC)
.
Este obra está bajo una
licencia de Creative Commons Reconocimiento-NoComercial-SinObraDerivada 2.5 España
.
Monday, September 17, 2007
Discovery of a Jupiter Trojan asteroid
New discoveries on 2007 sept 08 and 09, 2007 RJ35,
2007 RK35
and 2007 RQ39, RK35 is a
Jovian Trojan
at Lagrangian point L4
The animation below shows the simulated orbits of Jupiter Trojans (green color) and Hildas (red) courtesy of Petr Scheirich.
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