617 Patroclus (/pəˈtroʊkləs/ pə-TROH-kləs) is a large binary Jupiter trojan asteroid. It is a dark D-type asteroid and a slow rotator, due to the 103-hour...

(624 Hektor and 617 Patroclus). Hektor, like Achilles, belonged to the L4 swarm ("ahead" of the planet in its orbit), whereas Patroclus was the first asteroid...

admiral St. Patrokli, Soest, Germany Patroclus Hill, a hill on Anvers Island 617 Patroclus, an asteroid Lyssa patroclus, a species of moth in the family Uraniidae...

will visit the binary Trojan 617 Patroclus with its satellite Menoetius in 2033. The mission may end with the Patroclus–Menoetius flyby, but at that point...

discovered a number of asteroids, including notably the Trojan asteroids 617 Patroclus and 624 Hektor. The lunar crater Kopff is named after him, as is the...

group of citizen astronomers who assisted in detection of the asteroid 617 Patroclus in preparation for NASA's Lucy probe. In February 2022, he stated that...

2006, the Keck Observatory announced that the binary Jupiter trojan 617 Patroclus, and possibly large numbers of other Jupiter trojans, are likely extinct...

named before this naming convention was instituted. Correspondingly, 617 Patroclus is a Greek-named asteroid at the "Trojan" (L5) Lagrangian point. In...

Patroclus Hill (64°28′S 63°37′W / 64.467°S 63.617°W / -64.467; -63.617) is a rounded, snow-covered hill, 760 m, separated by a low col from the northwest...

asteroids that is "misplaced" in the wrong camp (the other one being 617 Patroclus in the Trojan camp). Hektor is one of the most elongated bodies of its...