Other Companions of Earth
Earth has a second companion, asteroid 3753 Cruithne, about 5 km across, in a peculiar type of orbital resonance called an overlapping horseshoe. It is probably only a temporary liaison. Several other small objects have been found in similar orbits. Although these objects are in 1:1 orbital resonance, they are not Earth trojans because each of them does not librate around a definite Sun–Earth Lagrangian point, either L4 or L5.
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