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    The Mars trojans are a group of trojan objects that share the orbit of the planet Mars around the Sun. They can be found around the two Lagrangian points...
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    trojans larger than one kilometer are thought to exist, of which more than 7,000 are currently catalogued. In other planetary orbits only nine Mars trojans...
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    (including 99942 Apophis) Earth trojan (2010 TK7) Earth-crosser asteroids Earth's quasi-satellites Mars Deimos Phobos Mars trojans Mars-crossing minor planets...
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    relationships to larger bodies: Mars trojans, Neptune trojans, Uranus trojans and Earth trojans are known to exist. The term "Trojan asteroid" is normally understood...
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    moons of Mars Mars trojan – Celestial bodies that share the orbit of Mars Satellites of Mars Transit of Deimos from Mars – Transit of a Moon of Mars Transit...
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    the first Mars trojan discovered. It was discovered by David H. Levy and Henry Holt at Palomar Observatory on 20 June 1990. It trails Mars (at the L5 point)...
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    numbered below 100000 are listed here. They include the two numbered Mars trojans 5261 Eureka and (101429) 1998 VF31. Many databases, for instance the...
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    2018 FC4 (category Mars trojans)
    2018 FC4 is a small asteroid and Mars trojan orbiting near the L5 point of Mars (60 degrees behind Mars on its orbit). 2018 FC4 was first observed on 21...
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    2011 SP189 (category Mars trojans)
    2011 SP189 is a small asteroid and Mars trojan orbiting near the L5 point of Mars (60 degrees behind Mars on its orbit). 2011 SP189 was first observed...
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    2009 SE (category Mars trojans)
    2009 SE is a small asteroid and Mars trojan orbiting near the L5 point of Mars (60 degrees behind Mars on its orbit). 2009 SE was first observed on 16...
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    2011 UB256 (category Mars trojans)
    2011 UB256 is a small asteroid and Mars trojan orbiting near the L5 point of Mars (60 degrees behind Mars on its orbit). 2011 UB256 was first observed...
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    2018 EC4 (category Mars trojans)
    2018 EC4 is a small asteroid and Mars trojan orbiting near the L5 point of Mars (60 degrees behind Mars on its orbit). 2018 EC4 was first observed on 10...
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    (311999) 2007 NS2 (category Mars trojans)
    (311999) 2007 NS2 is an asteroid and Mars trojan orbiting near the L5 point of Mars. (311999) 2007 NS2 was discovered on 14 July 2007, by the Observatorio...
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    2016 CP31 (category Mars trojans)
    2016 CP31 is a small asteroid and Mars trojan orbiting near the L5 point of Mars (60 degrees behind Mars on its orbit). 2016 CP31 was first observed on...
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    planets include asteroids (near-Earth objects, Mars-crossers, main-belt asteroids and Jupiter trojans), as well as distant minor planets (centaurs and...
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    Aeneas, celebrated as the Trojan refugee who "founded" Rome several generations before Romulus laid out the city walls. The word Mārs (genitive Mārtis), which...
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    (385250) 2001 DH47 (category Mars trojans)
    designation 2001 DH47, is a sub-kilometer asteroid and Mars trojan orbiting 60° behind the orbit of Mars near the L5 point. 2001 DH47 was discovered on 1 February...
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  • 2015[update], there are also 13 Neptune trojans, 7 Mars trojans, 2 Uranus trojans (2011 QF99 and 2014 YX49), and 2 Earth trojans (2010 TK7 and (614689) 2020 XL5...
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    Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun. The surface of Mars is orange-red because it is covered in iron(III) oxide dust, giving it the nickname "the Red...
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    2011 SC191 (category Mars trojans)
    2011 SC191 is a small asteroid and Mars trojan orbiting near the L5 point of Mars (60 degrees behind Mars on its orbit). 2011 SC191 was first observed...
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    2011 UN63 (category Mars trojans)
    also written as 2011 UN63, is a Mars trojan, an asteroid orbiting near the L5 point of Mars (60 degrees behind Mars on its orbit). 2011 UN63 was first...
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    2011 SL25 (category Mars trojans)
    also written as 2011 SL25, is an asteroid and Mars trojan candidate that shares the orbit of the planet Mars at its L5 point. 2011 SL25 was discovered on...
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    rotation could cause separation). A hypothetical planet-sized Earth trojan the size of Mars, given the name Theia, is thought by proponents of the giant-impact...
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    than smaller values depending on residuals. Earth trojans: 2010 TK7 and (614689) 2020 XL5. Mars trojans: (121514) 1999 UJ7, 5261 Eureka, (101429) 1998 VF31...
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    Neptune trojans are bodies that orbit the Sun near one of the stable Lagrangian points of Neptune, similar to the trojans of other planets. They therefore...
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    Colonization or settlement of Mars is the theoretical migration of humans to Mars and the establishment of long-term human presence on the planet. The...
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    2023 FW14 (category Mars trojans)
    Cabrera-Lavers, Antonio (2024). "Dynamics of 2023 FW14, the second L4 Mars trojan, and a physical characterization using the 10.4 m Gran Telescopio Canarias"...
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    humans to Mars has been the subject of aerospace engineering and scientific studies since the late 1940s as part of the broader exploration of Mars. Long-term...
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    List of objects at Lagrange points (category Trojans (astronomy))
    Asteroids in the L4 and L5 Sun–Mars Lagrangian points are sometimes called Mars trojans, with a lower-case t, as "Trojan asteroid" was originally defined...
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  • by the Mount Lemmon Survey on 27 September 2009 and it is a stable L5 Mars trojan asteroid. The survey also discovered the unusual Aten asteroid 2012 FC71...
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