Achilles

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 5259. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar System, Asteroids

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The first Trojan asteroid to be discovered, by Max Wolf in 1906, designated (588) Achilles. It belongs to the largest group of Trojans, orbiting ahead of Jupiter around the L4 Lagrangian point. It has an estimated diameter of 147 km, and orbits the Sun at a mean distance of 5.17 AU (774 million km) in a period of 11.78 years. The inclination is 10° and the eccentricity 0.15. Like the majority of ...

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