Editing 588 Achilles (section)

== Discovery ==

Achilles was discovered on 22 February 1906, by the German astronomer [[Max Wolf]] at the [[Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory]] in southern Germany. It was the first discovery of a Jupiter trojan, although {{mpl|(12126) 1999 RM|11}} had been observed as {{mp|A904 RD}} two years previously. This body, however, remained unconfirmed as the observation period was not long enough to calculate an orbit. [[August Kopff]], a colleague of Wolf at Heidelberg, then discovered [[617 Patroclus]] eight months after Achilles, and, in early 1907, he discovered the largest of all Jupiter trojans, [[624&nbsp;Hektor]].<ref name="large-trojan"/>