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The Jupiter trojans, commonly called trojan asteroids or simply trojans, are a large group of asteroids that share the planet Jupiter's orbit around the Sun. Relative to Jupiter, each trojan librates around one of Jupiter's stable Lagrange points : either L 4 , existing 60° ahead of the planet in its orbit, or L 5 , 60° behind.
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.
In the Solar System, most known trojans share the orbit of Jupiter. They are divided into the Greek camp at L 4 (ahead of Jupiter) and the Trojan camp at L 5 (trailing Jupiter). More than a million Jupiter trojans larger than one kilometer are thought to exist, [2] of which more than 7,000 are currently
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This is a partial list of Jupiter's L 5 trojans (60° behind Jupiter) with numbers 600001–700000 (also see main page). [1] If available, an object's mean diameter is taken from the NEOWISE data release, which the Small-Body Database has also adopted. [2] Mean diameters are rounded to two significant figures if smaller than 100 kilometers.
Minor planets in the L 4 and L 5 Sun–Neptune Lagrangian points are called Neptune trojans, with a lower-case t, as "Trojan asteroid" was originally defined as a term for Lagrangian asteroids of Jupiter. Data from: Minor Planet Center
This is a partial list of Jupiter's L 5 trojans (60° behind Jupiter) with numbers 1–100000 (also see main page). [1] If available, an object's mean diameter is taken from the NEOWISE data release, which the Small-Body Database has also adopted. [2] Mean diameters are rounded to two significant figures if smaller than 100 kilometers.
The Uppsala–DLR Trojan Survey (UDTS, also known as UAO–DLR Trojan Survey) is an astronomical survey to study the movements and locations of asteroids near Jupiter, which includes Jupiter trojans and other asteroids, which line-of sight are frequently blocked by the giant planet.