Why Some Astonomers Think There's an Interstellar Asteroid
- Episode aired May 24, 2018
- 9m
Near Jupiter is a retrograde asteroid in an unusual resonance orbit with the planet. Since retrograde asteroids are exceedingly rare astronomers want to know how it got there. So they ran a ... Read allNear Jupiter is a retrograde asteroid in an unusual resonance orbit with the planet. Since retrograde asteroids are exceedingly rare astronomers want to know how it got there. So they ran a million simulations and found, first, it extremely lucky it wasn't thrown out of the solar... Read allNear Jupiter is a retrograde asteroid in an unusual resonance orbit with the planet. Since retrograde asteroids are exceedingly rare astronomers want to know how it got there. So they ran a million simulations and found, first, it extremely lucky it wasn't thrown out of the solar system or into the Sun by Jupiter. And second, it may not have formed in the solar system... Read all