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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.
By 2003 roughly a dozen dynamical families were identified. Jupiter-trojan families are much smaller in size than families in the asteroid belt; the largest identified family, the Menelaus group, consists of only eight members. [5] In 2001, 617 Patroclus was the first Jupiter trojan to be identified as a binary asteroid. [21]
2010 TK 7 was confirmed to be the first known Earth trojan in 2011. It is located in the L 4 Lagrangian point, which lies ahead of the Earth. [14] (614689) 2020 XL 5 was found to be another Earth trojan in 2021. It is also at L4. [15] [16] (687170) 2011 QF 99 was identified as the first Uranus trojan in 2013. It is located at the L 4 Lagrangian ...
The first column of this table contains the family identification number or family identifier number (FIN), which is an attempt for a numerical labeling of identified families, independent of their currently used name, as a family's name may change with refined observations, leading to multiple names used in literature and to subsequent confusion.
The asteroid's density is less than that of water, indicating that it has a highly porous interior structure similar to a rubble pile. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 4 ] It was given the name Thymbraeus on 27 February 2023, after one of the two sons of the Trojan priest Laocoön who was attacked by sea serpents for attempting to warn the Trojans about the ...
4709 Ennomos / ˈ ɛ n ə m ə s / is a large Jupiter trojan from the Trojan camp and the namesake of the small Ennomos family, approximately 81 kilometers (50 miles) in diameter.It was discovered on 12 October 1988, by American astronomer Carolyn Shoemaker at the Palomar Observatory in California. [1]
Members of the Thronium family are both part of the wider Trojan dynamical group, and fragments of 9799 Thronium. The family is considered a non-catastrophic asteroid family because 9799 Thronium, its largest member, makes up nearly all of the family's total mass, rather than simply being the largest of a number of fragments each making up a ...
Eurybates is a dark Jupiter trojan asteroid orbiting in the leading Greek camp at Jupiter's L 4 Lagrangian point, 60° ahead of Jupiter's orbit in a 1:1 resonance (see Trojans in astronomy). [ 6 ] [ 7 ] It orbits the Sun at a distance of 4.7–5.7 AU once every 11 years and 10 months (4,321 days; semi-major axis of 5.19 AU).