{"id":3928720,"date":"2026-11-02T20:04:24","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T01:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/queens-university-belfast-students-find-neptunes-elusive-trojan-asteroids\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T20:04:24","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T01:04:24","slug":"queens-university-belfast-students-find-neptunes-elusive-trojan-asteroids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/queens-university-belfast-students-find-neptunes-elusive-trojan-asteroids\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen&#8217;s University Belfast students find Neptune&#8217;s elusive Trojan asteroids"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>An international team led by researchers at Queen&#8217;s University Belfast has made a discovery that has eluded astronomers for decades. Beginning in 1906, telescope observations revealed a population of asteroids leading and trailing Jupiter, which came to be known as the &#8220;Trojan&#8221; and &#8220;Greek&#8221; populations. Since then, astronomers have discovered similar &#8220;families&#8221; orbiting Saturn and Uranus, but not Neptune. Thanks to the Queen&#8217;s-led team, the mystery of the missing Trojans has now been resolved.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-11-queen-university-belfast-students-neptune.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international team led by researchers at Queen&#8217;s University Belfast has made a discovery that has eluded astronomers for decades. Beginning in 1906, telescope observations revealed a population of asteroids leading and trailing Jupiter, which came to be known as the &#8220;Trojan&#8221; and &#8220;Greek&#8221; populations. Since then, astronomers have discovered similar &#8220;families&#8221; orbiting Saturn and [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3928720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3928720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3928720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3928720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3928720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}