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PremiumVIVAnews -Apostolos Christou and David Asher, Armagh Observatory, astronomers from North of Ireland stated that the asteroid some time ago, it has followed the Earth with their move themselves around the Sun for at least 250 thousand last year.
Asteroid named 2010 So16 which has a diameter of several hundred metres it is also the largest asteroid to be around the Earth. Expected, the asteroid has a close relationship with the origins of the planet Earth.
According to astronomers, it will continue to monitor the movement of the Earth at least for 100 thousand to millions of years into the future. These findings are set out in its own journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
"The average distance of this asteroid to the Sun is identical to the distance of Earth to the Sun," said Christou, as quoted Cosmosmagazine, from Monday 11 April 2011. "Interestingly, the orbit of the asteroid is also very similar to Earth's orbit," he said.
However, the line taken this asteroid not similar to the Earth. In his travels around the Sun, he made the line shaped like a Horseshoe.
"Asteroid 2010 So16 takes 175 years to complete the journey from the tip of one to the other end on the Horseshoe," said Christou.
This Asteroid, Christou continued, slowed down when entering orbit because the farther from the Sun than the Earth. "When the speed of the asteroid were balanced with the speed of the Earth, the earth does not withdraw it," he said. "Not her asteroid by the gravity of the Earth make the asteroid to be closer to the Sun and it makes the additional speed So16 got."
Currently, the asteroid was at one point that is closest to Earth. Estimated, these asteroids can be seen in the decades ahead. (art)
