Discovery date 4 August 1983 Orbital period 12 years Orbits Sun Named after Machaon | Alternative names 1983 PV Observation arc 30833 days (84.42 yr) Discovered 4 August 1983 | |
Discovered by Lyudmila Georgievna Karachkina Aphelion 5.51506 AU (825.041 Gm) Similar Jupiter trojan, 911 Agamemnon, Sun, 588 Achilles, 617 Patroclus | ||
3063 Makhaon 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 Makhaon, who fought during the Trojan War. It was discovered by Lyudmila Georgievna Karachkina in Nauchnyj, Ukraine on August 4, 1983.
Photometric observations of this asteroid during 2009 were used to build a light curve showing a rotation period of 8.6354 ± 0.0033 hours with a brightness variation of 0.06 ± 0.01 magnitude.
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