University of Hawaii-Discovered Earth Trojan Asteroid Largest to Date
February 03, 2022
February 03, 2022
HONOLULU, Hawaii, Feb. 3 (TNSJou) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release:
An asteroid bigger than the Manoa campus at the University of Hawaii, discovered by a UH Institute for Astronomy telescope atop Haleakala, Maui, is only the second-known object of its kind ever found. The near-Earth object, asteroid 2020 XL5, was discovered by the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS)-1 in December 2020. The object is an Earth Trojan asteroid, . . .
An asteroid bigger than the Manoa campus at the University of Hawaii, discovered by a UH Institute for Astronomy telescope atop Haleakala, Maui, is only the second-known object of its kind ever found. The near-Earth object, asteroid 2020 XL5, was discovered by the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS)-1 in December 2020. The object is an Earth Trojan asteroid, . . .