4805 Asteropaios (1990 VH7) is a Jupiter Trojan discovered on November 13 1990 by Shoemaker C. S. at Palomar. It is named after Asteropaios a character in Homer’s Iliad who fought for the Trojans in the Trojan War.Photometric observations of this asteroid during 1994 were used to build a light curve showing a rotation period of 12.372 ± 0.010 hours with a brightness variation of 0.26 ± 0.01 magnitude.
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