55576 Amycus
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55576-amycus-172-2017796
title:
55576 Amycus
text:
55576 Amycus is a centaur discovered on 8 April 2002 by the NEAT at Palomar. The minor planet was named for Amycus, a male centaur in Greek mythology. It came to perihelion in February 2003. Data from the Spitzer Space Telescope gave a diameter of 76.3±12.5 km. A low probability asteroid occultation of star UCAC2 17967364 with an apparent magnitude of +13.8 was possible on 11 February 2009. Another such event involving a star with an apparent magnitude of +12.9 occurred on 10 April 2014 at about
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original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/55576_Amycus
date created:
2008-03-20T07:20:46Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T01:39:39Z
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13
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