Menoetius em 3D: posição e órbita ao vivo

O companheiro do troiano de Júpiter Pátroclo, quase tão grande quanto ele: os dois giram um em torno do outro a cada 4,28 dias, a cerca de 690 quilômetros de distância. O par é um alvo da missão Lucy da NASA.Menoetius é mostrado na sua posição real, calculada a partir das efemérides NASA/JPL. A vista se abre sobre Menoetius; você pode viajar no tempo, alternar entre a visão geral educativa e a viagem em escala real, e compará-lo com todos os outros corpos do Sistema Solar.

Orbita

Pátroclo

Distância média a Pátroclo

689 km¹

Período orbital

4,28 dias¹

Missões

Lucy MIssion

Fontes

Grundy et al., The upcoming mutual event season for the Patroclus-Menoetius Trojan binary. Icarus 305, 198-202. 2018. consultada em 2026-10-04. https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.03729

3D Solar System

Galaxy

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Display settings

In the scene

A column header sets the whole column, a group row its group, a row one object. Spacecraft and interstellar objects start hidden.

What the scene shows, object by object
Object	Label	Object	Orbit

Asteroid and comet field

Drawn in Exploration mode, one dot per known orbit.

Rendering

Accessibility and units

Offline use

Download every ephemeris file so the app can place the bodies at any date without a network. Nothing is downloaded until you ask.

Navigation

Drag orbit the view
Scroll · pinch zoom in / out
Click a body or its label to travel to it
Educ · Explo compressed overview vs true-scale voyage
Clock · date scroll to time-travel, tap to pick

Textures: USGS Astrogeology / NASA-JPL (public domain) · Solar System Scope (CC BY 4.0) · NOAA ETOPO 2022 · Halley, Itokawa, Gaspra, Ida: Philip Stooke / NASA PDS.
Illustrative surfaces: Bodies never mapped globally have an illustrative texture, not a scientific map; the body card says so, and Sources lists them.
3D shape models: NASA PDS: NEAR (Eros), Hayabusa (Itokawa), Galileo (Ida, Gaspra) · ISAS/JAXA: Hayabusa2 (Ryugu) · NASA/Goddard SVS: OSIRIS-REx (Bennu)
Data: Astronomy Engine · NASA/JPL Horizons · JPL SBDB · NASA GIBS · NASA Planetary Data System (mission context products) · IAU Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature · Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · ERA5, Copernicus Climate Change Service (ECMWF)