1647 Menelaus is a Jupiter Trojan asteroid that orbits in the L4 Lagrangian point of the Sun-Jupiter system in the Greek Camp of Trojan asteroids. It was named after the Greek hero Menelaus. It was discovered by Seth Barnes Nicholson on June 23 1957 in Palomar California at the Palomar Observatory.
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