List of Jupiter trojans (Trojan camp)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search

This is a list of Jupiter's Trojan asteroids that lie in the elongated, curved regions around the trailing L5 Lagrangian point 60° behind Jupiter in the same orbit.

All the asteroids at the trailing L5 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. Correspondingly, 624 Hektor is a Trojan-named asteroid at the "Greek" (L4) Lagrangian point.

External links[edit]