617 Patroclus

617 Petroclus
617 Petroclus from Trojans.zip in Orbiter 2006P1
Designation
Name	617 Petroclus
Reference body	Sun
Planetary mean orbits
Epoch	2009.46064339
Semimajor axis (a)	778417560353.55 m
Eccentricity (e)	0.1395242409075892
Inclination (i)	22.0468058769034° (0.3847893521 radian)
Longitude of the ascending node (LAN, ☊)	44.3517600541835° (0.7740842420 radian)
Longitude of periapsis (ϖ)	351.799701287534° (6.1400630950 radian)
Mean longitude (L)	257.848801431457° (4.5003105573 radian)
Selected physical parameters
Mean radius	70500 m
Mass	1.3×1018 kg
Rotation elements
SidRotPeriod	46600 seconds (12.944 hours)
SidRotOffset	0
Obliqutiy	0
LAN	0
Note	*Elements given are from 617 Patroclus.cfg (Trojans.zip)

617 Patroclus (1906 VY, 1941 XC, 1962 NB) is a large binary Jupiter Trojan asteroid of the Greek camp (whose orbits lie in the L4 point 60° behind of Jupiter. It was discovered by August Kopff at the Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory in October 1906 and was named after a Greek hero of the Trojan War and was a character in the Iliad. It is the only trojan in the Trojan camp named for a greek figure. Patroclus is one of the five trojans that is a target of the Lucy mission.

617 Patroclus in Orbiter

617 Patroclus was introduced to orbiter with the release of Trojans.zip add-on in June 2009, and is modeled as a contact binary in Trojans.zip.

Orbiter versions and add-ons which include 617 Patroclus
Add-on	Source	Version	Author	Type	Release Date	Compatibility	Wiki article
Trojan Asteroids v1.01	O-F Resources	v1.01	sputnik	Scenery	27 June 2009

See also

617 Patroclus at Wikipedia

Gallery

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  617 Patroclus from Trojans.zip in Orbiter 2006P1
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  center>617 Patoclus imaged by Hubble in February 2018
  from Wikimedia Commons