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Most of the asteroids in our Solar System are located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, the so-called Main Belt asteroids. However there are many less-populated regions where asteroids are also found. One such example is the Trojan asteroids, which are a particularly special case since they share the orbit of a planet around the Sun.
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Todd, M. (2013). Trojan Asteroids in the Inner Solar System. In: Badescu, V. (eds) Asteroids. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39244-3_2
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