4138 Kalchas
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4138-kalchas-0-14894873
title:
4138 Kalchas
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4138 Kalchas is a large Jupiter trojan from the Greek camp, approximately 53 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 19 September 1973, by Dutch astronomers Ingrid and Cornelis van Houten at Leiden, on photographic plates taken by Tom Gehrels at the Palomar Observatory in California. The assumed C-type asteroid is the principal body of the proposed Kalchas family and has a rotation period of 29.2 hours. It was named after the seer Calchas from Greek mythology.
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Trojan asteroid
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4138_Kalchas
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date modified:
2023-12-26T02:11:39Z
main entity:
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fields total:
13
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14