Neptune Trojans : 2001 Qr322, Neptune Trojan, 2005 Tn53, 2007 Vl305, 2006 Rj103, 2007 Rw10, 2004 Up10, 2005 To74

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: As of May 2008, there are six known Neptune trojans (named by analogy to the Trojan asteroids) which have the same orbital period as Neptune. They lie in the elongated, curved region around the L4 Lagrangian point 60 ahead of Neptune. These are,,,, and . This animation shows the path of the 6 Neptune Trojans in a rotating frame with a period equal to Neptune's orbital period. (Neptune is held stationary.) The discovery of in a high inclination (