A retrograde co-orbital asteroid of Jupiter

Paul Wiegert (), Martin Connors and Christian Veillet
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Paul Wiegert: The University of Western Ontario
Martin Connors: The University of Western Ontario
Christian Veillet: Large Binocular Telescope Observatory

Nature, 2017, vol. 543, issue 7647, 687-689

Abstract: Asteroid 2015 BZ509 is a retrograde co-orbital asteroid of the planet Jupiter, stably orbiting in a sense opposite to that of Jupiter’s orbit around the Sun for around a million years.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1038/nature22029

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