Sergestus

(1988 RM1 )
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NOW @ 11 ARI 59
FOUND @ 12 PIS 11
 
Inclination: 8.587
Eccentricity: 0.051
Period: 11.807 years
AU 5.185
Type: 0009

Discovery Chart

10.9.1988 08:15 Palomar 116w51 33n21 observations 1


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Named for one of Aeneas’ {see planet  (1172)} Trojan companions after the fall of Troy, commander of the galley named “Centaur”. During the Sicilian games, as described in the Aeneid, Sergestus took the Centaur in a race against three other galleys. He drove his ship upon the rocks, lost the race and was mocked by the crowds, but to console him Aeneas gave him a reward of a slave woman named Pholoe. (M 18647) _ _.


Discovered on 10-9-1988 in Palomar by Shoemaker, C. S.

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