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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.
In astronomy, a trojan is a small celestial body (mostly asteroids) that shares the orbit of a larger body, remaining in a stable orbit approximately 60° ahead of or behind the main body near one of its Lagrangian points L 4 and L 5.
588 Achilles is a large Jupiter trojan asteroid of the Greek camp. Achilles was the first Jupiter trojan to be discovered, and was discovered by Max Wolf at the Heidelberg Observatory in 1906. Wolf named the minor planet after the legendary hero Achilles from Greek mythology.
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.
17365 Thymbraeus (provisional designation 1978 VF 11) is a Jupiter trojan from the Trojan camp, which is located in Jupiter's trailing L 5 Lagrangian point. Background [ edit ]
This makes 2020 XL 5 the largest Earth trojan asteroid known to date, being up to three times as large as the 0.3 km (0.19 mi)-sized 2010 TK 7. [ 7 ] Because 2020 XL 5 is only visible at low altitudes in the sky during twilight , atmospheric distortions and scattered light from the Sun hinder accurate photometry of the asteroid's light curve ...
Asteroids in the L 4 and L 5 Sun–Mars Lagrangian points are sometimes called Mars trojans, with a lower-case t, as "Trojan asteroid" was originally defined as a term for Lagrangian asteroids of Jupiter. They may also be called Mars Lagrangian asteroids.
1208 Troilus / ˈ t r oʊ ɪ l ə s / is a large and notably inclined Jupiter trojan from the Trojan camp, approximately 103 kilometers (64 miles) in diameter.It was discovered on 31 December 1931, by German astronomer Karl Reinmuth at the Heidelberg Observatory in southern Germany. [1]