|
Discovery and designation
|
|
|---|---|
| Discovery date | 1998,december 22 |
|
Designations
|
|
| MPC designation | 13387 |
| Alternate name(s) | 1998 YW6 |
| Epoch May 14, 2008 | |
| Ap | 5.7268888 |
| Peri | 4.7158604 |
| Eccentricity | 0.0968163 |
| Orbital period | 4357.8844843 |
| Mean anomaly | 327.99120 |
| Inclination | 7.24237 |
| Longitude of ascending node | 356.01943 |
| Argument of peri | 19.12000 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 11.8 |
13387 Irus (1998 YW6) is a Jupiter Trojan discovered on December 22, 1998 at the Astronomical Observatory of Farra d'Isonzo in Farra d'Isonzo, Gorizia, Italy. The discovery is credited to the observatory. Irus was named for a character in The Odyssey, the beggar Irus, who was defeated by Odysseus on his return to Ithaca.[1][2]
|
|||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||