Want Civilization in Space? Find a Trojan Asteroid
1,785 views · Published 28 July 2011 · 0:56 · Indexed 1 October 2026
Channel: VideoFromSpace · 2011 · Science & Technology
NASA's WISE mission just did! Like soldiers in a Trojan Horse, asteroid materials tend to hide within points of stable gravitation on planets' orbits. Asteroid 2010 TK7, the first such Earth Trojan to be discovered could feed future human settlement.
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