This is a list of
Jupiter trojan
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 poin ...
s that lie in the Greek camp, an elongated curved region around the leading
Lagrangian point
In celestial mechanics, the Lagrange points (; also Lagrangian points or libration points) are points of equilibrium for small-mass objects under the influence of two massive orbiting bodies. Mathematically, this involves the solution of th ...
(), 60
° ahead of
Jupiter
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the List of Solar System objects by size, largest in the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a mass more than two and a half times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined, but ...
in its orbit.
All the asteroids at Jupiter's point have names corresponding to participants on the Greek side of the
Trojan War
In Greek mythology, the Trojan War was waged against the city of Troy by the Achaeans (Greeks) after Paris of Troy took Helen from her husband Menelaus, king of Sparta. The war is one of the most important events in Greek mythology and has ...
, except for
624 Hektor
624 Hektor 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. It was discovered on 10 February 1907, by astronomer ...
, which was named before this naming convention was instituted. Correspondingly,
617 Patroclus
617 Patroclus ( ) is a large binary Jupiter trojan asteroid. It is a dark D-type asteroid and a slow rotator, due to the 103-hour orbital period of its two components. It is one of five Jovian asteroids targeted by the ''Lucy'' space probe, and ...
is a Greek-named asteroid at the "Trojan" () Lagrangian point. In 2018, at its 30th General Assembly in Vienna, the
International Astronomical Union
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amended this naming convention, allowing for Jupiter trojans with ''
H'' larger than 12 (that is, a mean diameter smaller than approximately 22 kilometers, for an assumed albedo of 0.057) to be named after Olympic athletes, as the number of known Jupiter trojans, currently more than 10,000, far exceeds the number of available names of heroes from the Trojan War in
Greek mythology
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.
Trojans in the Greek and
Trojan camp
This is a list of Jupiter trojans that lie in the Trojan camp, an elongated curved region around the trailing Lagrangian point, 60° behind Jupiter.
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are discovered mainly in turns, because they are separated by 120°, and for a period of time one group of trojans will be behind the Sun, and the other will be visible.
Partial lists
, there are 6506 known objects in the Greek camp, of which 3264 are numbered and listed in the following partial lists:
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List of Jupiter trojans (Greek camp) (1–100000)
This is a partial list of Jupiter's trojans (60° ahead of Jupiter) with numbers 1–100000 .
1–100000
This list contains 561 objects sorted in numerical order.
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List of Jupiter trojans (Greek camp) (100001–200000)
This is a partial list of Jupiter's trojans (60° ahead of Jupiter) with numbers 100001–200000 .
100001–200000
This list contains 264 objects sorted in numerical order.
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List of Jupiter trojans (Greek camp) (200001–300000)
This is a partial list of Jupiter's trojans (60° ahead of Jupiter) with numbers 200001–300000 .
200001–300000
This list contains 777 objects sorted in numerical order.
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List of Jupiter trojans (Greek camp) (300001–400000)
This is a partial list of Jupiter's trojans (60° ahead of Jupiter) with numbers 300001–400000 .
300001–400000
This list contains 1109 objects sorted in numerical order.
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List of Jupiter trojans (Greek camp) (400001–500000)
This is a partial list of Jupiter's Jupiter trojan, trojans (60° ahead of Jupiter) with numbers 400001–500000 .
400001–500000
This list contains 391 objects sorted in numerical order.
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List of Jupiter trojans (Greek camp) (500001–600000)
This is a partial list of Jupiter's trojans (60° ahead of Jupiter) with numbers 500001–600000 .
500001–600000
This list contains 829 objects sorted in numerical order.
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List of Jupiter trojans (Greek camp) (600001–700000)
This is a partial list of Jupiter's trojans (60° ahead of Jupiter) with numbers 600001–700000 .
600001–700000
This list contains 183 objects sorted in numerical order.
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Largest members
This is a list of the largest 100+ Jupiter trojans of both the Greek and
Trojan camp
This is a list of Jupiter trojans that lie in the Trojan camp, an elongated curved region around the trailing Lagrangian point, 60° behind Jupiter.
All the asteroids at the trailing point have names corresponding to participants on the Troj ...
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Jupiter trojans (Greek camp)
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 poin ...
Lists of Jupiter trojans