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This is a list of Jupiter trojans that lie in the Trojan camp, an elongated curved region around the trailing L 5 Lagrangian point, 60° behind Jupiter in its orbit.. All the asteroids at the trailing L 5 point have names corresponding to participants on the Trojan side of the Trojan War, except for 617 Patroclus, which was named before this naming convention was instituted.
Asteroids in the leading (L 4) orbit are named after Greek heroes (the "Greek node or camp" or "Achilles group"), and those at the trailing (L 5) orbit are named after the heroes of Troy (the "Trojan node or camp"). [2] The asteroids 617 Patroclus and 624 Hektor were named before the Greece/Troy rule was devised, resulting in a "Greek spy ...
(687170) 2011 QF 99 was identified as the first Uranus trojan in 2013. It is located at the L 4 Lagrangian point. A second one, (636872) 2014 YX 49, was announced in 2017. [17] 2013 ND 15 is a temporary Venusian trojan, the first one to be identified. The large asteroids Ceres and Vesta have temporary trojans. [18]
These are lists of asteroids, e.g. by discoverer or by number. ... List of Jupiter trojans (Trojan camp) List of Jupiter trojans (Trojan camp) (1–100000)
VLT/SPHERE images of most asteroids > 210 km in diameter to scale. Deconvolved with MISTRAL algorithm. Main-belt asteroids > 200 km that were not imaged are (451) Patientia, (65) Cybele and (107) Camilla. Trojan (624) Hektor may also be in this size range. VLT/SPHERE images of a large number of asteroids 100 to 210 km in diameter, to scale.
The Trojan asteroids, which borrow their name from Greek mythology, orbit the sun in two swarms — one that’s ahead of Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, and a second one that ...
An Earth trojan is an asteroid that orbits the Sun in the vicinity of the Earth–Sun Lagrange points L 4 (leading 60°) or L 5 (trailing 60°), thus having an orbit similar to Earth's. Only two Earth trojans have so far been discovered.
Hektor is the first known trojan with a satellite companion and, so far, one of only four known binary trojan asteroids in the L 4 group (the others being 16974 Iphthime, 3548 Eurybates, and 15094 Polymele). 617 Patroclus, another large trojan asteroid of the L 5 group, consists of two almost equal-sized components. [13]