Khryses

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13.8.1988 00:00 Palomar 116w51 33n21 observations 1


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Named for the priest of Apollo whose daughter, Khryseïs, was abducted by Agamemnon {see planets  (1862),  (202), and  (911)}. Apollo, angered, sent a plague among the Greeks, until Agamemnon then took Achilles’ girl, Briseïs {see planet  (655)}, thus sparking the quarrel between Agamemnon and Achilles that led to the events described in the Iliad. (M 18144) _ _.


Discovered on 13-8-1988 in Palomar by Shoemaker, C. S.

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