Lykaon

(1988 RK1 )
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NOW @ 14 PIS 14
FOUND @ 6 ARI 1
 
Inclination: 9.34
Eccentricity: 0.092
Period: 12.033 years
AU 5.251
Type: 0009

Discovery Chart

10.9.1988 09:15 Palomar 116w51 33n21 observations 1


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Named for the brother of Polydoros and a son of Priam {see planets  (4708) and  (844)}; born of the queen Laothoe. Some years before the Trojan war, Achilles {see planet  (588)} captured Lykaon and sold him into slavery, but Lykaon made his way back to Troy, only to be killed by Achilles beside the River Skamander. (M 18465) _ _.


Discovered on 10-9-1988 in Palomar by Shoemaker, C. S.

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