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 Trojan camp, an elongated curved region around the trailing

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, 60° behind

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. All the asteroids at the trailing point have names corresponding to participants on the Trojan side of the

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, except for

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 ...

, which was named before this naming convention was instituted. Correspondingly,

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 ...

is a Trojan-named asteroid at the "Greek" () Lagrangian point. In 2018, at its 30th General Assembly in Vienna, the

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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

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. Trojans in the Greek and Trojan camp 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 4006 known objects in the Trojan camp, of which 1928 are numbered and listed in the following partial lists: *

List of Jupiter trojans (Trojan camp) (1–100000) This is a partial list of Jupiter's trojans (60° behind Jupiter) with numbers 1–100000 . If available, an object's mean diameter is taken from the NEOWISE data release, which the Small-Body Database has also adopted. Mean diameters are rounded ...

List of Jupiter trojans (Trojan camp) (100001–200000) This is a partial list of Jupiter's trojans (60° behind Jupiter) with numbers 100001–200000 . 100001–200000 This list contains 298 objects sorted in numerical order. top References {{DEFAULTSORT:List of Jupiter Trojans (Trojan c ...

List of Jupiter trojans (Trojan camp) (200001–300000) This is a partial list of Jupiter's trojans (60° behind Jupiter) with numbers 200001–300000 . 200001–300000 This list contains 269 objects sorted in numerical order. top References {{DEFAULTSORT:List of Jupiter Trojans (Trojan c ...

List of Jupiter trojans (Trojan camp) (300001–400000) This is a partial list of Jupiter's trojans (60° behind Jupiter) with numbers 300001–400000 . 300001–400000 This list contains 378 objects sorted in numerical order. top References {{DEFAULTSORT:List of Jupiter Trojans (Trojan ...

List of Jupiter trojans (Trojan camp) (400001–500000) This is a partial list of Jupiter's Jupiter trojan, trojan asteroids (60° behind Jupiter) with numbers 400001–500000 . 400001–500000 This list contains 295 objects sorted in numerical order. #top, top References {{Jupiter Trojan

Jupiter Trojans (Trojan 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 poi ...

Lists of Jupiter trojans