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.