Earth's first Trojan asteroid

[Dexter Sinister]

...a Trojan could make such an easy and nifty place for astronauts to visit.

Not really, but as usual, the media do a poor job of explaining scientific matters. It's currently over 200 times as far away as the moon, not an easy trip at all. It'd be more like a trip to Mars at a close approach than a voyage to the moon. The article also did a pretty poor job of explaining the orbital parameters, the thing moves around quite a lot in an undulatory motion around the Lagrange point, it's only a semi-stable location, not really a place where the gravitational fields of the earth and sun balance.

 

[ironsides]

Not really, but as usual, the media do a poor job of explaining scientific matters. It's currently over 200 times as far away as the moon, not an easy trip at all. It'd be more like a trip to Mars at a close approach than a voyage to the moon. The article also did a pretty poor job of explaining the orbital parameters, the thing moves around quite a lot in an undulatory motion around the Lagrange point, it's only a semi-stable location, not really a place where the gravitational fields of the earth and sun balance.

If we ever want to get a hands on in deep space, the asteroid would be a good place for a base, that is after we complete one on the Moon first. Our future in space will be done in jumps, Mars the asteroid, Titan then who knows where. We have a lot of moons to chose from just in our solar system.

 

[petros]

Not really, but as usual, the media do a poor job of explaining scientific matters. It's currently over 200 times as far away as the moon, not an easy trip at all. It'd be more like a trip to Mars at a close approach than a voyage to the moon. The article also did a pretty poor job of explaining the orbital parameters, the thing moves around quite a lot in an undulatory motion around the Lagrange point, it's only a semi-stable location, not really a place where the gravitational fields of the earth and sun balance.

It' not something you really have to travel to. Just go up and wait for it to come to you.

 

[Gilgamesh]

Mohammed predicted this.

No she didn't. She did, however, predict your moronic comment :=)

 

[Cliffy]

I doubt the rest of the populations of the galaxy would want to have anything to do with such barbaric, devolved creatures as Human beings mucking up their planets. Until we learn to get along and take care of our own planet, they will never let us leave.

 

[DaSleeper]

Do you self flagellate often?

 

[petros]

Eco-Jesuit?