Tags: Asteroid.
12609 Apollodoros (provisional designation: 2155 P-L) is a main-belt minor planet. It was discovered by Cornelis Johannes van Houten Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at the Palomar Observatory in San Diego County California on September 24 1960. It is named after Apollodorus of Athens a Greek scholar and grammarian of the 2nd century BC.