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Tuesday, November 22, 2005
List of Co-Orbital Satellites
As you may know, the Earth has only one natural orbiting body, the moon. However, you may not know that the Earth has several co-orbiting bodies - objects which share the orbit of the Earth with the Earth and sometimes even enter into orbit around the Earth for periods of time. I could not find a nice comprehensive list on the internet, so here is my go at it. You can search deeper for more detailed explanation of each body.
2002 AA29
3753
Cruithne / 1986 TO
J002E3
(Artificial, probably the lost S-IVB 3rd stage from Apollo 12, )
(85770)
1998 UP1
(54509)
2000 PH5
2003 YN107
2004 GU9
2001 GO2
10563 Izhdubar
(66063)
1998 RO1
(85990) 1999 JV6
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