Asteroid Chicken

from SPACE Wrong-Way, Daredevil Asteroid Plays ‘Chicken’ with Jupiter By Hanneke Weitering This image of asteroid 2015 BZ509, captured by the Large Binocular Telescope Observatory (LBTO), helped astronomers establish the object’s retrograde, co-orbital nature. Credit: LBTO Astronomers have found a bizarre asteroid orbiting the sun in the wrong direction while playing a risky game of “chicken” with […]