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The Jupiter trojans, commonly called Trojan asteroids or simply Trojans, are a large group of asteroids that share the planet Jupiter's orbit around the Sun. Relative to Jupiter, each Trojan librates around one of Jupiter's two stable Lagrange points: L4, lying 60° ahead of the planet in its orbit, and L5, 60° behind
MrBEC
Homestuck.com for anyone Interested
Sinodio
roleaux triangle lookin ass
lawideas
If you're going to get involved with someone's black hole, make sure you bring your Trojans.
FullDisclosure
P3 and P4 . Beautifull
icommentwithsteveharvey
Arent the Trojans 30° ahead and behind jupiters orbit because Jupiter is in the middle of that triangle
lookatmycrappyusername
Weeeeeeeee (Earth)
Seenmeb4
Do you have asteroids? No, but my dad does sometimes.
WillemHellfire
Isn't Jupiter protecting us from the red thingys?
Doumdidoum
Rather it protects us from all the other thingies that are outside the gif.
SocoFox
Between Mars and Jupiter there's a gap for another planet. Now way back yeah maybe a mad man just blew the shit out of it.
qtRaven
All hail The Shield!
Mnethses
very cool
poopslave
This shit blows my mind.
eliasr1
illuminati confirmed
DavidBrooker
Fun fact: The closest planet to every other planet in the solar system is Mercury, but this is not generally true of every object 1/2
TsunamiJohn
Well on average the sun is closest if we're playing that game
DavidBrooker
The Sun does not orbit the Sun
DavidBrooker
orbiting the Sun ... because of the Trojans. 2/2
YourBioAsAComment
I see you also saw that post on the fp.
PrfctDrk
That mini Earth rounded the sun 12 times
AndrewBuggy
Jupiter's the only reason life exists still on Earth. Without it 'hoovering' up all the rouge comets, Earth would have perished long ago.
Daarst
So that's why Westeros has weird shit happening.
awholelotofnothin
Based on that pattern, there should be a third clump of astroids. I wonder why there isn't?
Drewscifer
Not pictured: all the hits Jupiter and his gassy bros take for us
1amGout
Jupiter's a dick like that!
Alloftheusernamesaretakenforreal
It's interesting that the Jupiter/Sun L3 doesn't have a static group of trojans. Anyone happen to know why?
transjeander
Greeks are the leading asteroids the Trojanns are the trailing asteroids they hang out in Legrange points L4 and L5 respectively
transjeander
Legrange points are orbital parking spaces in three body physics where gravitational forces are in equilibrium
waspinatorrulez
And there's your How, How, How.
QueenAmy
Thank you
DrummerOnDemand
Like the animation of a compression cycle in a radial engine
Laternenkind
I feel very unsafe right now...
hitham3essam
Holy God We are in a big mixer
IliveIdyeIliveagain
Calm down Mercury
muffinlovin
oh look...mercury is so much closer to earth then mars
HistoryHayden
We need to build an asteroid wall to keep the Aliens out!
needanamedammit
We have at least three.
Sionas
Mathematics rule the universe.
APUSHMeOffACliff
[Mos Def yelling in distance]
NotACanadian
I thought that was spice.
wabewalker
Are the red asteroids THE asteroid belt between Jupiter and Mars?
Lakalaba
In other words.... hooolld my haaand.... In other words: baby, kiss me
clawthewolf
Fun fact: All the matter in the asteroid belt would make a planet with a mass of around a third of Earths
Jupman
Tiamat...oooohh.
MyNameisNotOwl
Damn inners don't even know where we belters live!
rouverius
What's with the hat?
GhillieTrollAskold
Keeps the rain off of my head, kid.
rouverius
fortunateson1969
Beltalowda gonya leva xox, kopeng!
madmanwithabluebox
I understood that reference
wabewalker
Just found the answer to my own question: the red asteroids are the “Hildas”; beyond the asteroid belt & have their unique triangular orbits
WhatsYourStoryHomie
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purgethefilthyheretics
Yay, you get an A+ for effort
MadCat221
Are they interacting with the Lagrange L3 point or something?
Aktrazer
Thank you for doing the leg work on that. This is amazing.
MoneyMakeItRainn
Good on you!
fireinbloom
Triangular orbits? Why's that?
shapethink
Nope. Each Hildan has a nearly elliptical orbit that precesses (traces a spirograph) but the group stays trianglular, over three Trojan pts.
shapethink
*Lagrange points XP
InsanityMelon
Each orbit is actually nearly perfectly elliptical! But Jupiter and the sun form a gravity pattern that favors “triangular” formations
abrakadumbass
lagrange points
RedDwarfIV
They aren't literally moving in triangles, its just the shape of the group of asteroids.
espressoandpostrock
Without researching it, I imagine it has to do with being pulled in different directions by gravity from multiple bodies
MechanusIncarnate
They would be an ellipse around the sun, but jupiter's fat ass keeps dragging them off into these damn triangles.
fireinbloom
My favorite explanation.
modicumjones
Because Jupiter, thing's massive as heck.
rouverius
Anyone know why is Jupiter called a planet if it hasn't cleared it's orbit? (Yes, I'm still bitter about Pluto)
Daarst
It's almost like there are more qualifications than just one.
sinskittles
Those Trojans stay in Jupiter's orbit because Jupiter's gravity and the sun's gravity have equal pull at those 60° points making them 1/2
sinskittles
Essentially unable to leave those points unless a 3rd massive body breaks the deadlock. It's definitely a different situation than Pluto 2/2
dowingba
Jupiter is bigger than Pluto.
rouverius
If you think about it we might go so far to say that Jupiter is bigger than all the planets.
dowingba
Woah. Slow down there.
NotACanadian
Jupiter is clearly the dominant celestial body in its orbit here.
DVSBSTrD
Would Jupiter melt if it was as close to the sun as Earth?
JackieTreehornProductions
ignite maybe
rouverius
It's made of gas.
QueenAmy
With a solid core
drchim
I would likely just heat up a bit and expand a tad.
NotACanadian
Checks out, happens to me when I'm at your mother's
drchim
It*
DragonDildoChandelier
I think it's about how stable the asteroids are, and that it's a system driven by Jupiter's enormous gravity (they're not just "there")
rouverius
Yeah, they're mainly hanging out on the Lagrange points.
nolittleplans
I met my girlfriend at Lagrange Point
rouverius
And I hear it's fine; most every night... But now, I might be mistaken
purgethefilthyheretics
What does it mean 'to have cleared its orbit'?
patismaximus
Pluto is smaller than the moon and there is another dwarf planet bigger than it is. Pluto is not a planet. Have a great day!
rouverius
Thanks. You too!
AsFarAsIKnow
"and yet it spins!"
dogmoind
nolittleplans
dogmatix
VIVA LA PLUTO (fuck you)
Atomic2
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