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List of Jupiter trojans (Trojan camp)

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This is a list of Jupiter trojans that lie in the Trojan camp, an elongated curved region around the trailing L5 Lagrangian point, 60° behind Jupiter in its 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. 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. 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 July 2024, there are 4951 known objects in the Trojan camp, of which 2643 are numbered and listed in the following partial lists:

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

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Example 3 — an exam-style question

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In the classroom: List of Jupiter trojans (Trojan camp) is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Jupiter trojans (Trojan camp), Lists of Jupiter trojans, Lists of asteroids, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
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