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Earth has not one, but two Trojan asteroids now, reveals recent study

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Trojan asteroid, also called Trojan planet, is any one of a number of asteroids that occupy a stable Lagrangian point in a planet's orbit around the Sun. Recent research by astronomers has discovered the second Earth Trojan asteroid, almost a decade after the discovery of the first. The results of the study have been published in the journal 'Nature Communications'.