The stable retrograde orbit of the Bee-Zed asteroid explained
Wednesday, June 28, 2017 - 05:32
in Astronomy & Space
In our solar system, an asteroid orbits the sun in the opposite direction to the planets. Asteroid 2015 BZ509, also known as Bee-Zed, takes 12 years to make one complete orbit around the sun. This is the same orbital period as that of Jupiter, which shares its orbit but moves in the opposite direction.