Space exploration began with the launch of Sputnik and Astrophysics was born as the application of physics to the phenomena observed by Astronomy, which etymologically means laws of the stars.
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| Achilles |
Asteroid 588, diameter 116 km. Discovered by M.Wolf in 1906, it was the first of the Trojan asteroids to be identified.
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