614689 (2020 XL₅)

Author(s): John van Vliet

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614689 (2020 XL₅) is a near-Earth asteroid and Earth trojan discovered by the Pan-STARRS 1 survey at Haleakala Observatory, Hawaii on 2020-Dec-12. It oscillates around the Sun–Earth L4 point (leading 60°), one of the dynamically stable locations where the combined gravitational force acts through the Sun's and Earth's barycenter, making it the second known Earth trojan after 2010 TK₇

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