Scientists discover a part of the moon orbiting Mars – AlKhaleej Today

Irish astronomers discovered that an asteroid orbiting Mars, possibly a part that has separated from the moon.Scientists classified the asteroid 101429 as a Trojan asteroid, meaning small celestial bodies trapped in balanced gravitational regions in the near-sun orbits of planets, the so-called Lagrange points, located 60 degrees in front and behind the planets.So far, 7,681 asteroids have been identified in the solar system, of which 7,642 are in the orbit of Jupiter. Meanwhile, Mars, astronomers…

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