Discovery date 30 January 1966 Minor planet category Jupiter Trojan Discovered 30 January 1966 Orbits Sun | Alternative names 1966 BA1 Observation arc 63.01 yr (23014 days) Absolute magnitude 9.6 | |
Aphelion 5.50783 AU (823.960 Gm) Perihelion 4.75165 AU (710.837 Gm) Discovery site Purple Mountain Observatory People also search for 2260 Neoptolemus, 3391 Sinon | ||
2456 Palamedes is a Jupiter Trojan asteroid that orbits in the L4 Lagrangian point of the Sun-Jupiter system, in the "Greek Camp" of Trojan asteroids. It was named after the Greek hero Palamedes. It was discovered by the Purple Mountain Observatory in Nanjing, China on January 30, 1966.
Photometric observations of this asteroid during 1995 were used to build a light curve showing a rotation period of 7.258 ± 0.004hours with a brightness variation of 0.05 ± 0.01 magnitude.
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