Achilles (minor planet designation: 588 Achilles) is a large Jupiter trojan asteroid of the Greek camp. Achilles was the first Jupiter trojan to be discovered, and was discovered by Max Wolf at the Heidelberg Observatory in 1906. Wolf named the minor planet after the legendary hero Achilles from Greek mythology.[1][2] The dark D-type asteroid measures approximately 133 kilometers (83 miles) in diameter which makes it one of the 10 largest Jupiter trojans. It has a rotation period of 7.3 hours and possibly a spherical shape.[12]
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Achilles (minor planet designation: 588Achilles) is a large Jupiter trojan asteroid of the Greek camp. Achilles was the first Jupiter trojan to be discovered...
semi-major axis of about 5.2 AU. The first Jupiter trojan discovered, 588Achilles, was spotted in 1906 by German astronomer Max Wolf. More than 9,800 Jupiter...
into Greek and Trojan "camps" to honour the Iliad. The first of these, 588Achilles, was discovered by Max Wolf in 1906; since then more than two thousand...
candidate 2011 SL25. Jupiter trojans: the first one was discovered in 1906, 588Achilles, and the current total is over 6,000. 1 Ceres 2 Pallas 3 Juno 4 Vesta...
discovered 248 asteroids in his lifetime. Among his many discoveries was 588Achilles (the first Trojan asteroid) in 1906, as well as two other Trojans: 659...
Asteroids at Lagrangian point L4 are named after Greek characters (such as 588Achilles), whilst asteroids at L5 are named after Trojans (such as 884 Priamus)...
"WHY "KUIPER" BELT?". University of Hawaii. Retrieved 14 June 2007. "588Achilles (1906 TG)". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 15 June 2018. Kowal, Charles...
Names. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. pp. 60–61. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-29925-7_588. ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3. "LCDB Data for (587) Hypsipyle". Asteroid Lightcurve...
legendary Greek hero Patroclus. Friend of Achilles, he was killed by Hector during the Trojan War. (See 588Achilles and 624 Hektor.) The name was proposed...
its official discovery observation at Palomar. Since the discovery of 588Achilles by Max Wolf in 1906, more than 7,000 Jupiter trojans, with nearly 4,600...
ahead on its orbit . Since the discovery of the first Jupiter trojan, 588Achilles, by astronomer Max Wolf in 1906, more than 7000 Jovian asteroids have...
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