Jupiter isn't alone along its orbital path around the Sun.
Three of these points lie along the line connecting the two large bodies. The remaining two, L4 and L5, share the orbital path of the smaller of the two bodies, L4 leading and L5 trailing.
Jupiter's Greeks and Trojans, according to decades of research, should be similarly numerous. The two populations have almost identical properties related to their stability and survivability, yet the Greeks far outnumber the Trojans. To figure out why, Li and his colleagues decided to model Jupiter's early evolution based on something called early giant-planet instability.
According to the team's model, the asymmetry in the trojan population can be replicated during a rapid outward migration, during which Trojans are lost. Greeks, on the other hand, are lost during the inward migration. The team's model suggests that Jupiter migrated outwards more than inwards, resulting in a higher population of Greeks.solely of an inward migrationThe model, as it stands, is a pretty interesting starting point, but the researchers note that it is relatively rough.
And identifying more trojans will give a more accurate description of the population of these objects, which will also help refine future analyses, the researchers say. But the line of inquiry looks promising.
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