Re: Asteroids

>Trivia note: some of you may have noticed that Jupiter is ~5.2 AU from
the
>sun,
>and I indicated some asteroids range out as far as 5.2 AU from the sun;
these
>asteroids are part of the Kirkwood Gap phenomenon, and are called
Trojan
>Asteroids, something some of you may have heard of before, in some dim
faint
>distant memory from a basic astronomy class.
>

I think there are Trojan point asteroids described in the
Niven/Pournelle
"Mote" series.	So for us non-physiscs guys what does this really mean ?

Stuart.

Stuart Murray

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