List_of_Jupiter_trojans_(Greek_camp)

List of Jupiter trojans (Greek camp)

List of Jupiter trojans (Greek camp)

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This is a list of Jupiter trojans that lie in the Greek camp, an elongated curved region around the leading Lagrangian point (L4), 60° ahead of Jupiter in its orbit.

The asteroids of the inner Solar System and Jupiter.
  Jupiter trojans
  Orbits of planets
  Sun
  Hilda group
  Asteroid belt
  Near-Earth objects (some)

All the asteroids at Jupiter's L4 point have names corresponding to participants on the Greek side of the Trojan War, except for 624 Hektor, which was named before this naming convention was instituted. Correspondingly, 617 Patroclus is a Greek-named asteroid at the "Trojan" (L5) Lagrangian point. In 2018, at its 30th General Assembly in Vienna, the International Astronomical Union 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.[1][2][3]

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

As of December 2023, there are 8296 known objects in the Greek camp, of which 4315 are numbered and listed in the following partial lists:[2]

Largest members

This is a list of the largest 100+ Jupiter trojans of both the Greek and Trojan camps.

More information Largest Jupiter Trojans by survey(A) (mean-diameter in kilometers; YoD: Year of Discovery), Designation ...
100+ largest Jupiter trojans

References

  1. "MPEC 2020-T164". Minor Planet Electronic Circular. 15 October 2020. Retrieved 23 June 2021.
  2. "List of Jupiter Trojans". Minor Planet Center. 14 June 2021. Retrieved 23 June 2021.
  3. "Asteroid Size Estimator". CNEOS NASA/JPL. Retrieved 12 November 2017.

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