32811 Apisaon
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32811 Apisaon is a Jupiter Trojan discovered on October 14, 1990 by F. Borngen and L. D. Schmadel at Tautenburg
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The asteroid is named for a minor Trojan officer, mentioned in book eleven Homer
's Iliad
. In the epic, Apisaon was slain by the spear of the warrior Eurypylos, as he attempted to engage the hero Ajax
in battle.
Tautenburg
Tautenburg, a municipality in the Saale-Holzland district in Thuringia in Germany, houses the Karl Schwarzschild Observatory....
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The asteroid is named for a minor Trojan officer, mentioned in book eleven Homer
Homer
In the Western classical tradition Homer , is the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and is revered as the greatest ancient Greek epic poet. These epics lie at the beginning of the Western canon of literature, and have had an enormous influence on the history of literature.When he lived is...
's Iliad
Iliad
The Iliad is an epic poem in dactylic hexameters, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy by a coalition of Greek states, it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles...
. In the epic, Apisaon was slain by the spear of the warrior Eurypylos, as he attempted to engage the hero Ajax
Ajax (mythology)
Ajax or Aias was a mythological Greek hero, the son of Telamon and Periboea and king of Salamis. He plays an important role in Homer's Iliad and in the Epic Cycle, a series of epic poems about the Trojan War. To distinguish him from Ajax, son of Oileus , he is called "Telamonian Ajax," "Greater...
in battle.