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588 Achilles
588 Achilles
is an
asteroid
discovered in February
1906
by the German astronomer
Max Wolf[?]
. It was the first of the
Trojan asteroids
to be discovered, and is named after
Achilles
, a fictional hero from the
Trojan War
. It orbits in the L
4
Lagrangian point
of the
Sun
-
Jupiter
system.
Diameter: 116 km
Spectral type: D
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