624 Hektor is the largest Jupiter trojan. It was discovered in 1907 by August Kopff.Hektor is a D-type asteroid dark and reddish in colour. It lies in Jupiter’s leading Lagrangian point L4 called the ‘Greek’ node after one of the two sides in the legendary Trojan War. Hektor is named after the Trojan hero Hektor and is thus one of two trojan asteroids that is misplaced in the wrong camp (the other one being 617 Patroclus in the Trojan node).
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