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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.
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624 Hektor / ˈ h ɛ k t ər / is the largest Jupiter trojan and the namesake of the Hektor family, with a highly elongated shape equivalent in volume to a sphere of approximately 225 to 250 kilometers diameter.
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.
1404 Ajax / ˈ eɪ dʒ æ k s / is a carbonaceous Jupiter trojan from the Greek camp, approximately 83 kilometers (52 miles) kilometers in diameter.It was discovered on 17 August 1936, by German astronomer Karl Reinmuth at Heidelberg Observatory in southern Germany, and named after the legendary warrior Ajax from Greek mythology. [1]
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.
This is a partial list of Jupiter's L 5 trojans (60° behind Jupiter) with numbers 200001–300000 (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.