asteroid (617) Patroclus
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Asteroid (617) Patroclus is a large Jupiter Trojan asteroid, notable as part of a rare binary system in the Trojan camp that shares Jupiter’s orbit around the Sun.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| asteroid (617) Patroclus canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T15880833 — 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 (617) Patroclus Context triple: [Lucy spacecraft, willVisit, asteroid (617) Patroclus]
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A.
asteroid 1000 Piazzia
Asteroid 1000 Piazzia is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi, the discoverer of Ceres.
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B.
asteroid 63 Ausonia
Asteroid 63 Ausonia is a large, bright main-belt asteroid discovered in the 19th century and named after an ancient poetic term for Italy.
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C.
asteroid 298 Baptistina
Asteroid 298 Baptistina is a main-belt asteroid notable for its association with the Baptistina family, once hypothesized to be linked to the impactor that caused the dinosaurs’ extinction.
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D.
asteroid 87 Sylvia
Asteroid 87 Sylvia is a large, dark main-belt asteroid notable for being one of the first known triple asteroid systems, with two small moons orbiting it.
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E.
asteroid 271 Penthesilea
Asteroid 271 Penthesilea is a main-belt asteroid named after the Amazonian queen Penthesilea from Greek mythology.
- 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 (617) Patroclus Target entity description: Asteroid (617) Patroclus is a large Jupiter Trojan asteroid, notable as part of a rare binary system in the Trojan camp that shares Jupiter’s orbit around the Sun.
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A.
asteroid 1000 Piazzia
Asteroid 1000 Piazzia is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi, the discoverer of Ceres.
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B.
asteroid 63 Ausonia
Asteroid 63 Ausonia is a large, bright main-belt asteroid discovered in the 19th century and named after an ancient poetic term for Italy.
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C.
asteroid 298 Baptistina
Asteroid 298 Baptistina is a main-belt asteroid notable for its association with the Baptistina family, once hypothesized to be linked to the impactor that caused the dinosaurs’ extinction.
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D.
asteroid 87 Sylvia
Asteroid 87 Sylvia is a large, dark main-belt asteroid notable for being one of the first known triple asteroid systems, with two small moons orbiting it.
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E.
asteroid 271 Penthesilea
Asteroid 271 Penthesilea is a main-belt asteroid named after the Amazonian queen Penthesilea from Greek mythology.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.