This is a list of Jupiter trojans that lie in the Trojan camp, an elongated curved region around the trailing Lagrangian point, 60° behind

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

, except for 617 Patroclus, 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

Greek mythology A major branch of classical mythology, Greek mythology is the body of myths originally told by the ancient Greeks, and a genre of Ancient Greek folklore. These stories concern the origin and nature of the world, the lives and activities ...

. 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) * List of Jupiter trojans (Trojan camp) (100001–200000) *

List of Jupiter trojans (Trojan camp) (200001–300000) This is a partial list of Jupiter's trojan Trojan or Trojans may refer to: * Of or from the ancient city of Troy * Trojan language, the language of the historical Trojans Arts and entertainment Music * ''Les Troyens'' ('The Trojans'), an op ...

* List of Jupiter trojans (Trojan camp) (300001–400000) * List of Jupiter trojans (Trojan camp) (400001–500000) * List of Jupiter trojans (Trojan camp) (500001–600000) * List of Jupiter trojans (Trojan camp) (600001–700000)

Largest members

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

References

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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