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English: A Glimmer in the Eye of WISE

Asteroid 2010 TK7 is circled in green, in this single frame taken by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. The majority of the other dots are stars or galaxies far beyond our solar system.

Astronomers discovered this object -- the first known Earth Trojan asteroid -- after sifting through asteroid candidates identified by WISE.

This image was taken in infrared light at a wavelength of 4.6 microns in Oct. 2010.

The original NASA image has been modified by cropping.
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Source http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/WISE/multimedia/gallery/neowise/pia14405.html
Author NASA/Jet Propulsion Lab-Caltech/UCLA
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October 2010