Tim Russ Discovers an Asteroid? This is a Story Right Out of Star Trek - The Cosmic Companion 28 Aug. 2021

Citizen scientists, including Star Trek's Tim Russ, have helped discover an asteroid orbiting the Sun with Jupiter.

News that Tim Russ discovers an asteroid sounds eerily similar to an opening scene of Star Trek: Voyager.

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Tim Russ, best-known for his role as Commander Tuvok on Star Trek Voyager, recently helped make a real-world discovery about space — an asteroid traveling around the Sun with Jupiter.

The asteroid Patroclus (pah-TRO-klus) was found by Russ, together with five other citizen scientists, assisting NASA in planning the upcoming Lucy mission to the Trojan asteroids of Jupiter.

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