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TIL 514107 Ka'epaoka'āwela is an asteroid that shares Jupiter's orbit but travels in the opposite direction. Aptly named the "Jupiter trickster," it is the first known object to maintain this stable "wrong-way" resonance, having avoided collision with Jupiter for at least a million years.

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