Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index 588 Achilles is an asteroid discovered on [[February 22],1906 by the German astronomer Max Wolf. It was the first of the Trojan asteroids to be discovered, and is named after Achilles, a fictional hero from the Trojan War. It orbits in the L4 Lagrangian point of the Sun-Jupiter system. Diameter: 116 km Spectral type: D This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.