9907 Oileus is a Jupiter Trojan asteroid of the Greek camp. It orbits the Sun once every 12.23 years.Discovered on September 24 1960 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld on photographic plates made by Tom Gehrels at the Palomar Observatory with the Samuel Oschin telescope it was given the provisional designation 6541 P-L. It was later renamed Oileus after Oileus a Greek runner slower only than Achilles.
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apoapsis (km)
8.47655e+11
orbital period (μ)
3.85838e+08
periapsis (km)
7.40223e+11
absolute magnitude
11.6
discovery date
1960-09-24
discoverer
Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld
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