Uranus trojans

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A Uranus trojan is an asteroid that shares an orbit with Uranus and the Sun. Two trojans have been discovered in Uranus’s Lagrangian point L4, where they follow 60° ahead and trail 60°.

2014 YX49 became the second.[1]

Several theories have come to be on how such trojans could orbit Uranus.

other planets, leading them on a perfect trajectory towards Uranus, or somewhere where Uranus’s gravitational pull is neutral
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List of Uranus trojans[2]
Designation Cloud Semimajor axis
(AU) 		Perihelion
(AU) 		Eccentricity Inclination
(°) 		(H) Diameter
(M)
2011 QF99 L4 19.167 15.765 0.177 10.796 9.6 60
2014 YX49
 L4 19.113 13.762 0.279 25.524 8.79 77

References

  1. doi:10.1093/mnras/stx197
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  2. ^ "Small-Body Database Lookup". ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Retrieved 2024-03-28.
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