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Hektor

Outline The numbers here are measured. The rest of this page is being written.

Sun
The path of Hektor round the Sun, seen from above and drawn to scale, with the white dot at its nearest point. The faint rings are the paths of Mercury, Venus, the Earth, Mars and Jupiter; it crosses the path of Jupiter. Orbit from NASA/JPL Small-Body Database.
Kind
Asteroid
Distance
5.277 au from the Sun on average
Once round
12.12 years
Path
a slightly stretched circle (eccentricity 0.0243), tilted 18.1°
Size
225 km across

The largest of the Trojans, the asteroids that share Jupiter's orbit.

The SunOn the atlasIn 3D

Still being written

  1. What it looks like
  2. What it is made of
  3. How it was found
  4. Spacecraft that have visited
  5. Could it hit the Earth?

Sources: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database.