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2010 TK7
July 27, 2011
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| Title |
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A Glimmer in the Eye of WISE |
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Asteroid 2010 TK7 is circled in green, in this single frame taken by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. The majority of the other dots are stars or galaxies far beyond our Solar System.
Astronomers discovered this object -- the first known Earth Trojan asteroid -- after sifting through asteroid candidates identified by WISE.
This image was taken in infrared light at a wavelength of 4.6 microns in Oct. 2010. |
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July 27, 2011 |
| Credit |
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NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/WISE Team |
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UC Berkeley |
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JPG |
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9.67MB |
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