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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 ]
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.
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.
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.
The size of solid bodies does not include an object's atmosphere. For example, Titan looks bigger than Ganymede, but its solid body is smaller. ... Jupiter trojan ...
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
This is a partial list of Jupiter's L 5 trojans (60° behind Jupiter) with numbers 100001–200000 (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.
1437 Diomedes / ˌ d aɪ ə ˈ m iː d iː z / is a large Jupiter trojan from the Greek camp, approximately 150 kilometers (90 miles) in diameter.It was discovered on 3 August 1937, by astronomer Karl Reinmuth at the Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory in southwest Germany. [1]