Extrasolar Trojans, or exotrojans which are asteroids that share the same orbit as an exoplanet (a planet outside of our solar system), are still enigmatic to astronomers. Named for the famed heroes of the Trojan War, our solar system’s Trojans are essentially cosmic fossils from the formation of our solar system. We don’t know much about their extrasolar counterparts, but now a West Virginia University (WVU) graduate student is pioneering our understanding of these leftover space rocks that may one day give us a better understanding of how our solar system was created.
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