3548 Eurybates

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3548 Eurybates is a C/P-type Jupiter L4 trojan asteroid approximately 68 km in diameter. It is a target to be visited by the Lucy mission in August 2027. This asteroid belongs to the 60 largest Jupiter trojans and has a rotation period of 8.7 hours. Eurybates has one known satellite, named Queta, that was discovered in images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in Sept 2018.

Eurybates and Queta - size comparison

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