1172 Äneas

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1172 Äneas is a Trojan asteroid. It was discovered by Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth at the Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl in Heidelberg, Germany, on October 17, 1930. Its provisional designation was 1930 UA. It is named after Aeneas, a mythological Trojan prince.

[edit] See also

• List of asteroids/1001–2000

[edit] External links

• JPL Small-Body Database Browser

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