Author: OLHA POLINKO
Company/ Institution: Junior Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Country: Ukraine
e-mail: jasuselection@man.gov.ua
web: https://man.gov.ua/en
This research investigates the hypothesis that Earth Trojan asteroids originated from the main asteroid belt. Using computer modeling, we demonstrate that gravitational interactions with the Earth can redirect a main-belt asteroid into a stable orbit around one of the triangular Lagrange points in the Earth’s orbit.