3063 Makhaon
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3063-makhaon-245-17709246
title:
3063 Makhaon
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3063 Makhaon is a large Jupiter trojan from the Greek camp, approximately 114 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 4 August 1983, by Soviet astronomer Lyudmila Karachkina at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory in Nauchnij, on the Crimean peninsula. The dark D-type asteroid is the principal body of the proposed Makhaon family and belongs to the 20 largest Jupiter trojans having a rotation period of 8.6 hours. It was named after the legendary healer Machaon from Greek mythology.
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wiki
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encyclopedia
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Jupiter trojan asteroid
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3063_Makhaon
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date modified:
2023-12-25T14:44:52Z
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13
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