Asteroid
Hektor
TypeAsteroid
Mass~1 × 10¹⁹ kg
Diameter225 km
Orbital Radius784 million km
Orbital Period4,273 days
Rotation Period6.92 hours
Known Moons1
Surface Gravity~0.03 m/s²
Average Temp-120 °C
AtmosphereNone
Discovered ByAugust Kopff
Discovery Year1907
About Hektor
King of the Trojan camp, the largest asteroid sharing the orbit of Jupiter. A stretched double-lobed body about 400 km long with a 12 km moon named Skamandrios, found in 2006.
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