Thüringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg
17492 Hippasos is a Jupiter trojan and member of the Ennomos family from the Trojan camp, approximately in diameter. It was discovered on 10 December 1991, by astronomer Freimut Börngen at the Karl Schwarzschild Observatory in Tautenburg, Germany. The Jovian asteroid belongs to the 80 largest Jupiter trojans has a rotation period of 17.8 hours. It was named after the Trojan prince Hippasus (Hippasos) from Greek mythology.