Marsyas

(2009 HC82 )
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NOW @ 2 LEO 56
FOUND @ 29 LIB 30
 
Inclination: 154.361
Eccentricity: 0.807
Period: 4.018 years
AU 2.527
Type: 1803

Discovery Chart

29.4.2009 08:58 Catalina 110w44 32n25 observations 1


Marsyas, a Phrygian Satyr dared oppose Apollo in a musical duel. Marsyas lost when he could not play his flute upside-down. For his hubris he was tied to a tree, flayed, his blood turned into a stream. Marsyas is so named for its unusual retrograde orbit, that which opposes the motion of most solar system objects, Apollos included.


Discovered on 29-4-2009 in Catalina by CSS

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