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Old 08-January-2004, 04:06 AM
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The link I posted as "Nepture Trojan" was about an object that is in one of Neptune's Lagrange points, just like Jupiter's trojan asteroids. It's the first object found in that relationship to a planet other than Jupiter.

I posted it because I was kind of wondering whether it would be classified as a Kuiper Belt object or a Centaur. The KBOs are "trans neptunian" and the Centaurs are all inside Neptune's orbit, but here's this thing just sitting right on the line, sharing Neptune's orbit. It's just a curiosity, that's all.
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