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5335 Damocles

Minor planets
Damocles, provisional designation 1991 DA, is a centaur and the namesake of the damocloids, a group of minor planets which may be inactive nuclei of the Halley-type and long-period comets. It was discovered on 18 February 1991, by Australian... Wikipedia
Discoverer: Robert H. McNaught
Discovered: February 18, 1991
Asteroid group: Damocloid
Minor planet category: distant; centaur · damocloid
Orbital period (sidereal): 40.67 Jyr (14,854 days)