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A Dictionary of Astronomy | 1997 | Â© A Dictionary of Astronomy 1997, originally published by Oxford University Press 1997. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Achilles Asteroid 588, the first Trojan asteroid to be discovered, by MaxWolf in 1906. It is a member of the group of Trojans at the L₄Lagrangian point 60° ahead of Jupiter. Achilles is a D-class asteroid of diameter 116km. Its orbit has a semimajor axis of 5.190 AU, period 11.82 years, perihelion 4.42 AU, aphelion 5.96 AU, and inclination 10°.3.

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