Trojan Asteroids: Jupiter s Prisoners

Jupiter has a bunch of asteroids that are trapped in two specific points in its orbit! ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters -- we couldn t make SciShow without them! Shout out to Patrick Merrithew, Will and Sonja Marple, Thomas J., Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters, charles george, Kathy & Tim Philip, Tim Curwick, Bader AlGhamdi, Justin Lentz, Patrick D. Ashmore, Mark Terrio-Cameron, Benny, Fatima Iqbal, Accalia Elementia, Kyle Anderson, and Philippe von Bergen. ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: http://www.lpi.usra.edu/books/AsteroidsIII/pdf/3007.pdf http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/mission/observatory_l2.html http://home.dtm.ciw.edu/users/sheppard/pub/Sheppard06NepTroj.pdf http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=7925 http://www.minorplanetcenter.org/iau/lists/Trojans.html https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/resources/2608/ http://saturn-archive.jpl.nasa.gov/science/moons/polydeuces/ https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-selects-investigations-for-future-key-planetary-mission Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Asteroid_Belt.svg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Joseph_Louis_Lagrange.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Orbit5.gif https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Drei_K%C3%B6rper_System_Raumhierarchie_Bahnen.png http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/jpl/pia21030/closing-in-on-jupiters-north-pole https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Low_pressure_system_over_Iceland.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lagrange_points_simple.svg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iliad_VIII_245-253_in_cod_F205,_Milan,_Biblioteca_Ambrosiana,_late_5c_or_early_6c.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:(253)_mathilde.jpg http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2012-171 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saturn_during_Equinox.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PIA18317-SaturnMoon-Tethys-Cassini-20150411.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dione_in_natural_light.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Telesto_cassini_closeup.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:N00151485_Calypso_crop.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Polydeuces.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PIA12758_Helene_crop.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lucy_Skeleton.jpg