(17351) Pheidippos

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( 17351 ) Pheidippos 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.

( 17351 ) Pheidippos was discovered by the Dutch astronomer Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten - Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory (IAU code 675) on September 19, 1973. He is associated with the Lagrangian point L4.

The asteroid is named after the mythological Greek hero Pheidippos, the son of the king and ruler of the Thessalos kalydnischen Islands. He was the brother of Antiphos and grandson of Heracles.