Around Jupiter’s L4 and L5 regions
Jupiter Trojans
Asteroids sharing Jupiter’s orbit, concentrated in broad groups ahead of and behind the planet.
The Trojan populations occupy regions around the Sun–Jupiter L4 and L5 equilibrium points, roughly 60 degrees ahead of and behind Jupiter. Individual asteroids follow librating orbits rather than sitting at a point.
Lucy is studying selected Trojan targets. Its main-belt encounters provide separate scientific observations and instrument checks; those objects are not Trojans.
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5 objects in this atlas’s reviewed selection; this is not the region’s entire population.
The 3D population is schematic. Dots do not represent measured positions, density or individual tracked asteroids.
NASA · region reference ↗