588 Achilles is an asteroid discovered on February 22 1906 by the German astronomer Max Wolf. It was the first of the trojan asteroids to be discovered and is named after Achilles the fictional hero from the Iliad. It orbits in the L4 Lagrangian point of the Sun-Jupiter system.
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