{"id":131352,"date":"2022-02-04T09:48:50","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T09:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=131352"},"modified":"2022-02-04T09:48:54","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T09:48:54","slug":"the-asteroid-2020-xl5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/the-asteroid-2020-xl5\/","title":{"rendered":"The asteroid  2020 XL5"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question : Astronomers have recently(February 2022) discovered a captive asteroid shadowing Earth in its orbit. The asteroid, known as __ .<\/strong><br>a. 2020 XL5<br>b. 2019 XL4<br>c. 2018 XL3<br>d. 2017 XL2<br><strong>Ans. a.<br>Related facts &#8212;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Astronomers have recently(February 2022) discovered a captive asteroid shadowing Earth in its orbit.<\/li><li>The asteroid, known as 2020XL5.<\/li><li>Astronomers have confirmed that it is the existence of the second known Earth Trojan asteroid and found that it is much bigger than the first.<\/li><li>An Earth Trojan is an asteroid that follows the same path around the Sun as Earth does, either ahead of or behind Earth in its orbit.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Reference:<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/02\/02\/science\/astronomy-asteroid-trojan.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/02\/02\/science\/astronomy-asteroid-trojan.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question : Astronomers have recently(February 2022) discovered a captive asteroid shadowing Earth in its orbit. The asteroid, known as __ .a. 2020 XL5b. 2019 XL4c. 2018 XL3d. 2017 XL2Ans. a.Related facts &#8212; Astronomers have recently(February 2022) discovered a captive asteroid shadowing Earth in its orbit. The asteroid, known as 2020XL5. Astronomers have confirmed that it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1131],"tags":[498],"class_list":["post-131352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dssn","tag-current-affairs-science-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131354,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131352\/revisions\/131354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}