(4834) Thoas Jupiter Trojan
Discovered on 11 January 1989 by C. S. Shoemaker at Palomar.
Where Thoas is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Thoas is 5.51 au from the Sun and 6.42 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 4834 |
| Provisional designation | 1989 AM2 |
| Orbit class | Jupiter Trojan |
| Diameter | 72.3 km (#445 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0850 |
| Rotation period | 18.2 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 9.2 |
| Orbital period | 11.9 years |
| Semi-major axis | 5.20 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 4.49 – 5.91 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.136 |
| Inclination | 28.5° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 3.51 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
Also discovered on 11 January 1989
- (4559) Strauss
- (4579) Puccini
- (5375) Siedentopf
- (5816) Potsdam
- (5846) Hessen
- (7119) Hiera
- (7698) Schweitzer
- (10067) Bertuch
- (10745) Arnstadt
- (13024) Conradferdinand
- (15710) Bocklin
- (16438) Knofel
More named asteroids discovered by C. S. Shoemaker
- (2459) Spellmann
- (2511) Patterson
- (2532) Sutton
- (2586) Matson
- (2614) Torrence
- (2686) Linda Susan
- (2705) Wu
- (2742) Gibson
- (2748) Patrick Gene
- (2773) Brooks
- (2834) Christy Carol
- (2891) McGetchin
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