1172 Äneas
1172 Äneas is a large Jupiter trojan from the Trojan camp, approximately in diameter. It was discovered on 17 October 1930, by astronomer Karl Reinmuth at the Heidelberg Observatory in southwest Germany. The dark D-type asteroid is one of the largest Jupiter trojans and has a rotation period of 8.7 hours. It is named after the Trojan prince Aeneas, from Greek mythology. Orbit and classification. "Äneas" is located in the Lagrangian point, 60° behind Jupiter in the so-called Trojan camp, orbiting in a 1:1 resonance . It is also a non-family asteroid of the Jovian  background population. It orbits the Sun at a distance of 4.7–5.8 AU once every 11 years and 11 months (4,354 days; semi-major axis of 5.22 AU). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.10 and an inclination of 17° with respect to the ecliptic. The body's observation arc begins with its official discovery observation at Heidelberg in October 1930. Naming. This minor planet was named after the Trojan hero Aeneas from Greek mythology. He is the son of goddess Aphrodite and Anchises of after whom 1173 Anchises was named. The was mentioned in "The Names of the Minor  Planets" by Paul Herget in 1955 (). Physical characteristics. Rotation period. Several rotational lightcurves of "Äneas" have been obtained since the first photometric observations by William Hartmann in 1988, that gave a period of 8.33 hours, and by Stefano Mottola and Anders Erikson in 1993, using the ESO 1-metre telescope at La Silla Observatory in Chile. Lightcurve analysis gave a rotation period of hours with a brightness variation of magnitude (). In July and August 2008, Susan Lederer at CTIO in Chile, and Robert Stephens at the Goat Mountain Astronomical Research Station in California, determined a well-defined period of with  an amplitude 0.20 magnitude (). Follow-up observations during 2015–2017 by Robert Stephens and Daniel Coley at the Center for Solar System Studies gave three concurring periods of 8.701, 8.681 and 8.7 hours with an amplitude of 0.62, 0.40 and 0.21 magnitude, respectively (), while in August 2011, Pierre Antonini reported a period of 11.8 hours based on a fragmentary lightcurve (). Diameter and albedo. According to the surveys carried out by the Infrared Astronomical Satellite IRAS, the Japanese Akari satellite and the NEOWISE mission of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, "Äneas" measures between 118.02 and 148.66 kilometers in diameter – making  it anywhere from the 8th to 4th largest Jupiter trojan – determined from a common absolute magnitude of 8.33 and a surface albedo between 0.037 and 0.059. The "Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link" adopts the results obtained by IRAS, that is, an albedo of 0.0403 and a diameter of 142.82 kilometers based on an absolute magnitude of 8.33. Spectral type. In the Tholen and Barucci classification, "Äneas" is a dark D-type asteroid, while in the Tedesco classification is as D/P-type asteroid. Its high V–I color index of 0.99 is typical for D-types.