trojan asteroid

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Definition von trojan asteroid im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch

an asteroid occupying the Trojan points of the Sun-Jupiter system

by extension, any asteroid occupying a Trojan point

Relevante Übersetzungen

Trojan asteroids

Two groups of asteroids named for heroes of Greece and Troy in Homer's Iliad. These objects revolve around the Sun at the Lagrangian points (see Joseph-Louis Lagrange) in Jupiter's orbit. Achilles, the first, was discovered in 1906. About 650 are known, but their actual number is estimated in the thousands. The term Trojan also applies to objects occupying the corresponding Lagrangian points in the orbits of other planets. Two such asteroids were discovered in Mars's orbit in the 1990s

Silbentrennung

Tro·jan as·ter·oid

Türkische aussprache

trōcın ästıroyd

Synonyme

trojan

Aussprache

/ˈtrōʤən ˈastərˌoid/ /ˈtroʊʤən ˈæstɜrˌɔɪd/

Etymologie

() Derived from the names of the first three Trojan asteroids found (Achilles, Patroclus, Hektor)