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617 Patroclus

Asteroid
617 Patroclus is a large binary Jupiter trojan asteroid. It is a dark D-type asteroid and a slow rotator, due to the 103-hour orbital period of its two components. It is one of five Jupiter trojan asteroids targeted by the Lucy space probe, and is... Wikipedia
Discoverer: August Kopff
Moon: Menoetius
Orbits: Sun
Mean density: 0.88±0.17 g/cm3
Discovered: October 17, 1906
Mass: (1.36±0.11)×1018 kg; 1.20×1018 kg
Spectral type: P-type asteroid