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55576 Amycus /ˈæmɨkəs/ provisionally known as 2002 GB10 is a centaur discovered on April 8 2002 by the NEAT at Palomar.55576 Amycus was named for Amycus a male centaur in Greek mythology.It came to perihelion in February 2003.Data from the Spitzer Space Telescope gave a diameter of 76.3 ± 12.5 km.A low probability asteroid occultation of star UCAC2 17967364 with an apparent magnitude of +13.8 was possible on February 11 2009.A low probability asteroid occultation of a star with an apparent magnitude of +12.9 will occur 2014 April 10 about 10h 46m Universal Time visible for observers in the southwest USA and western Mexico.
