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Ceto

(2003 FX128 )
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NOW @ 28 ARI 50

Discovery Chart

22.3.2003 06:39 Palomar 116w51 33n21 observations 1


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The satellite (65489) Ceto I, discovered 2006 Apr. 11 by K. Noll, H. Levison, W. Grundy and D. Stephens using the Hubble Space Telescope, is named Phorcys, for another child of Gaia and Pontus. Phorcys is represented with a man's head, crab's claws and a fish tail. Together the monstrous sea creatures Ceto and Phorcys produced numerous offspring, including many monstrous creatures known collectively as the Phorcydides.


Discovered on 22-3-2003 in Palomar by Trujillo, C. A., Brown, M. E.

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