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{{Infobox planet
 | minorplanet = yes
 | width = 25em
 | bgcolour = #FFFFC0
 | name=2456 Palamedes
 | discovery=yes
 | discovery_ref=[http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/NumberedMPs.html]
 | discoverer=[[Purple Mountain Observatory]]
(contracted; show full);' is a [[Jupiter Trojan]] asteroid that orbits in the {{L4}} [[Lagrangian point]] of the [[Sun]]-[[Jupiter]] system, in the [[List of Trojan asteroids (Greek camp)|"Greek Camp"]] of Trojan asteroids. It was named after the [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] hero [[Palamedes (Greek mythology)|Palamedes]]. It was discovered by the [[Purple Mountain Observatory]] in [[Nanjing]], [[China]] on January 30, 1966.

[[Photometry (astronomy)|Photometric]] observations of this asteroid during 1995 were used to 
build a [[light curve]] showing a [[rotation period]] of 7.258 ± 0.004hours with a brightness variation of 0.05 ± 0.01 [[Magnitude (astronomy)|magnitude]].<ref name="AJ141_5_170"/>

==References==
{{reflist|refs=
<ref name="AJ141_5_170">{{citation
 | last1 = Mottola | first1 = Stefano
 | last2 = Di Martino | first2 = Mario
 | last3 = Erikson | first3 = Anders
 | last4 = Gonano-Beurer | first4 = Maria
 | last5 = Carbognani | first5 = Albino
 | last6 = Carsenty | first6 = Uri
 | last7 = Hahn | first7 = Gerhard
 | last8 = Schober | first8 = Hans-Josef
 | last9 = Lahulla | first9 = Felix
 | last10 = Delbò | first10 = Marco
 | last11 = Lagerkvist | first11 = Claes-Ingvar
 | display-authors = 1
 | title = Rotational Properties of Jupiter Trojans. I. Light Curves of 80 Objects
 | journal = The Astronomical Journal
 | volume = 141
 | issue = 5
 | page = 170
 | month = May
 | year = 2011
 | doi = 10.1088/0004-6256/141/5/170
 | bibcode = 2011AJ....141..170M
 | postscript = .
}}</ref>
}}

==External links==
* [http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/NumberedMPs.txt Discovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets]
* [http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2456;orb=1 Orbital simulation] from JPL (Java) / [http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons.cgi?find_body=1&body_group=sb&sstr=2456 Ephemeris]

{{Minor planets navigator|2455 Somville|2457 Rublyov}}
{{Small Solar System bodies}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Palamedes}}
[[Category:Jupiter trojans (Greek camp)]]
[[Category:Asteroids named from Greek mythology]]
[[Category:Astronomical objects discovered in 1966]]