624 Hektor /ˈhɛktər/ is the largest Jupiter trojan and the namesake of the Hektor family, with a highly elongated shape equivalent in volume to a sphere...

named for its largest member, the 225-kilometre (140 mi)-across asteroid 624 Hektor. It lies within the larger dynamical group of Jupiter trojans, a group...

trojans were found by fellow German astronomer August Kopff (624 Hektor and 617 Patroclus). Hektor, like Achilles, belonged to the L4 swarm ("ahead" of the...

Look up Hektor in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Hektor is a Trojan prince in Greek mythology. Hektor may also refer to: 624 Hektor, the largest of...

Iris as evidence of an ancient large impact?". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 624 (A121): A121. arXiv:1902.09242. Bibcode:2018DPS....5040406H. doi:10...

of asteroids, including notably the Trojan asteroids 617 Patroclus and 624 Hektor. The lunar crater Kopff is named after him, as is the asteroid 1631 Kopff...

side. There are two exceptions, named before the convention was adopted: 624 Hektor in the L4 group, and 617 Patroclus in the L5 group. Astronomers estimate...

explanations for the extremely elongated shape of the Jupiter trojan asteroid 624 Hektor, whose longest axis measures roughly 300 km (190 mi) across and is twice...

D-type asteroids are known, including: 3552 Don Quixote, 944 Hidalgo, 624 Hektor, and 10199 Chariklo. A list of some of the largest D-type asteroids. Asteroid...

studied include (63) Ausonia, (15) Eunomia, (43) Ariadne, (44) Nysa, and (624) Hektor. The orbit of 15 Eunomia places it in a 7:16 mean-motion resonance with...

since then more than two thousand have been discovered. The largest is 624 Hektor. The Jupiter family is defined as comets that have a semi-major axis smaller...

S/2023 U 1 S/2021 N 1 (?) Kerberos Styx 762 Pulcova I Sylvia I Romulus 624 Hektor I Skamandrios Eugenia I Petit-Prince 121 Hermione I 283 Emma I 1313 Berna I...

(March 2014). "The Puzzling Mutual Orbit of the Binary Trojan Asteroid (624) Hektor". The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 783 (2): 6. arXiv:1402.7336. Bibcode:2014ApJ...

named before this naming convention was instituted. Correspondingly, 624 Hektor is a Trojan-named asteroid at the "Greek" (L4) Lagrangian point. In 2018...

corresponding to participants on the Greek side of the Trojan War, except for 624 Hektor, which was named before this naming convention was instituted. Correspondingly...

trilogy of computer games Hector, the eponymous dog in Hector's House 624 Hektor, a Trojan asteroid Hector (API), a Java Cassandra client HECToR, 'a Research...

Hamanowa, Hiroko (July 2009). "Lightcurves of 494 Virtus, 556 Phyllis, 624 Hektor 657 Gunlod, 111 Reinmuthia, 1188 Gothlandia, and 1376 Michelle" (PDF)...

studied include (63) Ausonia, (15) Eunomia, (43) Ariadne, (44) Nysa, and (624) Hektor. Assuming a diameter of 59 ± 4 km. Noah Webster (1884) A Practical Dictionary...

Asteroids studied include 63 Ausonia, 15 Eunomia, 43 Ariadne, 44 Nysa, and 624 Hektor. Aubrite E-type asteroid Hungaria family 64 Angelina 3103 Eger 55 Pandora...

and, in early 1907, he discovered the largest of all Jupiter trojans, 624 Hektor. Achilles orbits the Sun at a distance of 4.4–6.0 AU in the L4 Lagrangian...

G-type (1 Ceres) are much rarer. Other low-albedo classes are the D-types (624 Hektor), typically seen in the outer asteroid belt and among the Jupiter trojans...

war), a Trojan warrior. Skamandrios (moon), satellite of the asteroid 624 Hektor Scamandrius, eponymous archon 510–509 BC This disambiguation page lists...

members of that side of the conflict. 617 Patroclus in the Trojan camp and 624 Hektor in the Greek camp are "misplaced" in the enemy camps. There is a forbidden...

Chimera, mythological Greek monster DMP · 623 624 Hektor 1907 XM Hector, Trojan hero from Greek mythology DMP · 624 625 Xenia 1907 XN Unknown origin of name...

78–2.0 AU; < 0.18; 16°–34°) cat list 004 Hektor family HEK 16 trojan (L4) – – 5.204 0.054 19.02 624 Hektor (Jupiter trojan) cat list 005 Eurybates family...

Marchis and his team announced the discovery of a moonlet companion around 624 Hektor using the Keck Laser guide star AO system (ref [4]). This is the first...

War by the Trojan prince Hector, after whom the largest Jupiter trojan 624 Hektor is named. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet...

hero of the Iliad) 617 Patroclus (Patroclus, Greek hero of the Iliad) 624 Hektor (Hector, Trojan hero of the Iliad) 911 Agamemnon (Agamemnon, Greek hero...

Other studied asteroids included 15 Eunomia, 43 Ariadne, 44 Nysa, and 624 Hektor. In 1976, Ausonia was the subject of a photometric study by the Observatory...

he was killed by Hector during the Trojan War. (See 588 Achilles and 624 Hektor.) The name was proposed by Austrian astronomer Johann Palisa. The official...