The collection of Trojan asteroids trapped at Jupiter''s Lagrange points was:
A) a surprise when first discovered by the 5-meter Mount Palomar telescope.
B) a surprise when first discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope.
C) a surprise when first discovered by the Voyager 2 flyby mission.
D) predicted by the mathematician Lagrange in 1772.
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