(5436) Eumelos

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( 5436 ) Eumelus 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.

( 5436 ) Eumelus was discovered by the U.S. astronomers Carolyn and Eugene Shoemaker Jean Spellman Merle Shoemaker at Palomar Observatory (IAU code 675) on 20 February 1990. He is associated with the Lagrangian point L4.

The asteroid is named after the mythological figure of the Eumelus, king of Pherae, who was one of the warriors in the Trojan horse and the charioteer with the fastest horses of the Greek army.