Discovery date 16 October 1977 Observation arc 14031 days (38.41 yr) Perihelion 5.1831 AU (775.38 Gm) Orbits Sun MPC designation 4754 | Alternative names 5010 T-3 Aphelion 5.2919 AU (791.66 Gm) Discovered 16 October 1977 | |
Discoverers Tom Gehrels, Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld |
4754 Panthoos (5010 T-3) is a Jupiter Trojan discovered on October 16, 1977 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.
Photometric observations of this asteroid during 1994 were used to build a light curve showing a rotation period of 27.68 ± 0.05 hours with a brightness variation of 0.09 ± 0.01 magnitude.
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