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Hektor

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Hektor [′hek·tər]
(astronomy)
An asteroid, believed to be the largest of the Trojan planets, which circles the sun in the orbit of and approximately 60° ahead of Jupiter; it has an elongated shape, about 86 × 93 miles (300 × 150 kilometers) and D-type surface conposition.


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Only when one understands why The Iliad necessarily ends with the burial of Hektor can one look back on why Achilleus is the hero; only when one understands Dante's Trinity can one begin to understand Dante's confusions in The Inferno.
8 (early models), Summicron 50 mm F2 (dual range Summicron), Hektor 50 mm F2.
 
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