Small Trojan Asteroids Defy Expectations

Understanding the beginning of the solar system requires us to look at some very strange places. One such place is at the so-called Trojan asteroids that share Jupiters orbit in front of and behind it. But for a long time, these cosmic time capsules have held a mystery for astronomers: why are they color-coded? The populations of larger asteroids are very clear split into two distinct groups - the reds and the less reds, because apparently theyre all red to some extent. A new paper from research...