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Discovery and designation
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| Discovered by | Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld, and Tom Gehrels |
| Discovery site | Palomar Observatory - San Diego, California |
| Discovery date | September 19th, 1973 |
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Designations
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| MPC designation | 9713 |
| Alternate name(s) | 1973 SP1 |
| Epoch May 14, 2008 | |
| Ap | 5.4823865 |
| Peri | 4.9110697 |
| Eccentricity | 0.0549689 |
| Orbital period | 4327.0650587 |
| Mean anomaly | 233.12535 |
| Inclination | 4.15334 |
| Longitude of ascending node | 156.02135 |
| Argument of peri | 311.32554 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 11.1 |
9713 Oceax (1973 SP1) is a Jupiter Trojan discovered on September 19th, 1973, by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld, and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory. 9713 Oceax orbits the sun at the L4 Lagrangian point of Jupiter’s orbit.
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