Asteroids · 2

Trojan Asteroids

Minor planets sharing a giant planet's orbit at its Lagrange points, chiefly the Jupiter Trojans.

617 Patroclus
A binary Jupiter Trojan trailing Jupiter at the L5 'Trojan camp', and the final flyby target of NASA's Lucy mission.
CategoryTrojanDiameter140 kmDiscovered1906
588 Achilles
The first Jupiter Trojan discovered, leading Jupiter at the L4 Lagrange point in the 'Greek camp'.
CategoryTrojanDiameter130 kmDiscovered1906

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