The Griqua asteroids are a group of asteroids in the Main Belt orbiting the sun

Sun

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 between 3.1 and 3.27 AU

Astronomical unit

An astronomical unit is a unit of length equal to about or approximately the mean Earth–Sun distance....

. Asteroids in this group have eccentricities

Orbital eccentricity

The orbital eccentricity of an astronomical body is the amount by which its orbit deviates from a perfect circle, where 0 is perfectly circular, and 1.0 is a parabola, and no longer a closed orbit...

 greater than 0.35. The group derives its name from the asteroid 1362 Griqua

1362 Griqua

1362 Griqua is an outer main-belt asteroid discovered on July 31, 1935 by Cyril V. Jackson at Union Observatory. It is one of very few asteroids located in the 2 : 1 mean motion resonance with Jupiter.- References :...

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These asteroids are at a 2:1 resonance with Jupiter

Jupiter

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's orbit. As such, their orbits are unstable; gradually perturbed over thousands of years until their orbits intersect with that of Mars

Mars

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 or Jupiter

Jupiter

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Asteroids in this Group

Name	a	e	i Inclination Inclination in general is the angle between a reference plane and another plane or axis of direction.-Orbits:The inclination is one of the six orbital parameters describing the shape and orientation of a celestial orbit...
1362 Griqua 1362 Griqua 1362 Griqua is an outer main-belt asteroid discovered on July 31, 1935 by Cyril V. Jackson at Union Observatory. It is one of very few asteroids located in the 2 : 1 mean motion resonance with Jupiter.- References :...	3.222	0.370	24.206°
8373 Stephengould 8373 Stephengould 8373 Stephengould is an outer main-belt asteroid discovered on January 1, 1992 by Carolyn S. Shoemaker and Eugene Merle Shoemaker at Palomar. It is one of very few asteroids located in the 2 : 1 mean motion resonance with Jupiter. The asteroid was named after the Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay...	3.28	0.55	41°