asteroid Menoetius
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Asteroid Menoetius is a small Trojan asteroid in Jupiter’s orbit that is the binary companion of Patroclus and a planned flyby target of NASA’s Lucy mission.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| asteroid Menoetius canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T15880834 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: asteroid Menoetius Context triple: [Lucy spacecraft, willVisit, asteroid Menoetius]
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A.
asteroid 287 Nephthys
Asteroid 287 Nephthys is a main-belt asteroid named after the Egyptian goddess Nephthys.
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B.
asteroid 286 Iclea
Asteroid 286 Iclea is a main-belt asteroid discovered in the 19th century and named after a character from the science fiction novel "Auf zwei Planeten" by Kurd Lasswitz.
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C.
asteroid 289 Nenetta
Asteroid 289 Nenetta is a main-belt asteroid discovered in the 19th century and named following the early conventions of minor planet nomenclature.
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D.
asteroid 1943 Anteros
Asteroid 1943 Anteros is a near-Earth Apollo-group asteroid notable for its relatively close approaches to Earth and its role in studies of asteroid orbits and compositions.
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E.
asteroid 1000 Piazzia
Asteroid 1000 Piazzia is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi, the discoverer of Ceres.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: asteroid Menoetius Target entity description: Asteroid Menoetius is a small Trojan asteroid in Jupiter’s orbit that is the binary companion of Patroclus and a planned flyby target of NASA’s Lucy mission.
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A.
asteroid 287 Nephthys
Asteroid 287 Nephthys is a main-belt asteroid named after the Egyptian goddess Nephthys.
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B.
asteroid 286 Iclea
Asteroid 286 Iclea is a main-belt asteroid discovered in the 19th century and named after a character from the science fiction novel "Auf zwei Planeten" by Kurd Lasswitz.
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C.
asteroid 289 Nenetta
Asteroid 289 Nenetta is a main-belt asteroid discovered in the 19th century and named following the early conventions of minor planet nomenclature.
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D.
asteroid 1943 Anteros
Asteroid 1943 Anteros is a near-Earth Apollo-group asteroid notable for its relatively close approaches to Earth and its role in studies of asteroid orbits and compositions.
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E.
asteroid 1000 Piazzia
Asteroid 1000 Piazzia is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi, the discoverer of Ceres.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.