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Eurybates

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[yoo-rahy-buh-teez, yuh-] / yʊˈraɪ bəˌtiz, yə- /

noun

  1. a companion of Odysseus.


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After launch, Lucy will make several loops past Earth to gain the gravitational boost needed to head towards its first target, Eurybates, which it won’t reach until 2027.

From Scientific American • Oct. 19, 2021

The spacecraft’s targets include Eurybates, a 64-kilometre-wide remnant of a massive cosmic collision, and its tiny moon Queta, discovered last year with the Hubble Space Telescope.

From Scientific American • Oct. 19, 2021

Eurybates was once part of another destroyed asteroid.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 16, 2021

Eurybates has a tiny moonlet called Queta, which scientists think was created during a past collision.

From The Verge • Oct. 15, 2021

Let Phoenix, dear to Jove, lead the way; let Ajax and Ulysses follow, and let the heralds Odius and Eurybates go with them.

From The Iliad by Homer