4007 Euryalos

ASTEROIDJupiter trojan

ILLUSTRATION FROM ALBEDO 0.065 · RADIUS 22.8 KM

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OVERVIEW

] ASTEROID

4007 Euryalos is a Jupiter trojan. Its absolute magnitude () is 10.33. It orbits the Sun at a mean distance of 5.192 . Its effective radius is 22.76 . It is catalogued as 4007 Euryalos (1973 SR). It was discovered in 1973.

WHAT IT IS
Jupiter trojan
HOW FAR
5.192

Its average distance from the Sun, not from Earth.

HOW BIG
22.76

The radius of a ball that would look the same size — the body itself is not round.

HOW BRIGHT IN ITSELF (H)

How bright it would look from a fixed, standard distance — a measure of the object rather than of the view from here.

ONE ORBIT TAKES
11.8

One trip round the Sun.

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OBSERVING

] FROM WHERE YOU ARE

What it takes to see 4007 Euryalos for yourself. Everything in this part of the page is worked out for a real horizon, a real night and the equipment you say you have.

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CATALOG DATA

] 16 FIELDS

The raw catalogue values, as the source published them, with the error bars where one was published — sorted by what each set of figures is about rather than by the order they happened to be stored in.

WHAT KIND OF THING IT IS

What the object is in itself, rather than how it happens to look from here.

Rotation period
6.391

HOW BRIGHT IT IS

What the light adds up to, measured through one filter at a time. A magnitude is a brightness on a backwards scale — the smaller the number, the brighter the object.

Albedo

THE ORBIT

The shape of the path, where the object sits on it, and the instant those figures were true of. An orbit is a fit to observations and drifts away from the real one either side of its epoch.

Orbital period
11.83
Eccentricity
Inclination
10.99
Longitude of ascending node
6.76
Argument of perihelion
78.95
Mean anomaly
103.47
Element epoch
2461200.5000
Perihelion passage
2459958.4300
Minimum distance from Earth's orbit
3.93
Orbit class
TJN

WHEN IT WAS FOUND

Who first saw it, from where, and by what method.

Discovered by
van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T.
Discovered from
Palomar
Discovered on
1973-09-19
First observed
1973-09-19
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ALSO KNOWN AS

] 3 DESIGNATIONS
  • Asteroid 4007
  • Asteroid 4007 Euryalos (1973 SR)
  • Common name Euryalos
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LOOK IT UP ELSEWHERE

] 1 SERVICE

Each link carries the identifier printed beside it. Nothing on this page is a measurement of our own, so a number that disagrees with one of these is worth reporting — and a service that has never catalogued this object under this name will say so plainly.

  • JPL Small-Body Database4007

    The orbit these elements were taken from, with its uncertainty, its close approaches and every observation behind the fit.

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CITE THIS PAGE

] DR1

This page is live and its numbers move when an upstream refreshes, so the citation names the release the rows belong to rather than the day you read them. The release itself is frozen, republished as a bundle, and is what a data-availability statement should point at.

PLAIN TEXT
SpaceCatalog. 4007 Euryalos [catalogue entry]. Data release DR1 (2026-08-21). https://spacecatalog.org/object/4007-euryalos
BIBTEX
@misc{spacecatalog_4007-euryalos,
  author       = {{SpaceCatalog}},
  title        = {{4007 Euryalos}},
  howpublished = {SpaceCatalog, data release DR1 (2026-08-21)},
  year         = {2026},
  url          = {https://spacecatalog.org/object/4007-euryalos},
  note         = {Catalogue entry, data release DR1 (2026-08-21). Values from JPL Small-Body Database.}
}

The values above were taken from JPL Small-Body Database — Public domain (NASA/JPL). Citing this page does not replace citing that catalogue.

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