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.