(14791) Atreus

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( 14791 ) Atreus is an asteroid from the group of Jupiter Trojans. Thus asteroids are called, which run on the path of Jupiter on the Lagrange points around the sun.

( 14791 ) Atreus was discovered on September 19, 1973 by the Dutch astronomer Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten - Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory. He is associated with the Lagrangian point L4.

The asteroid is named after the mythological figure of Atreus, king of Mycenae and father of Agamemnon and Menelaus, who fought on the side of the Greeks at Troy.