The Hilda asteroids (adj. Hildian) are a dynamical group of more than 6,000 asteroids located beyond the asteroid belt but within Jupiter's orbit, in a 3:2 orbital resonance with Jupiter; that is, while Jupiter orbits twice, the Hildas orbit three times. The namesake is the asteroid 153 Hilda.
Hildas move in their elliptical orbits in such a fashion that they arrive closest to Jupiter's orbit (i.e. at their aphelion) just when either one of Jupiter's L5, L4 or L3 Lagrange points arrives there. On their next orbit their aphelion will synchronize with the next Lagrange point in the L5–L4–L3 sequence. Since L5, L4 and L3 are 120° apart, by the time a Hilda completes an orbit, Jupiter will have completed 360° − 120° or two-thirds of its own orbit. A Hilda's orbit has a semi-major axis between 3.7 and 4.2 AU (the average over a long time span is 3.97), an eccentricity less than 0.3, and an inclination less than 20°. Two collisional families exist within the Hilda group: the Hilda family and the Schubart family. The namesake for the latter family is 1911 Schubart.