659 Nestor
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659 Nestor is a Jupiter Trojan asteroid orbiting the Sun
Sun
The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. It is almost perfectly spherical and consists of hot plasma interwoven with magnetic fields...

. Along with the other Jupiter Trojans in the Greek Camp, it orbits along Jupiter's path, about 60 degrees ahead of the planet.

On 30 June 2006 it occulted TYC 6854-00630. The duration of the disappearance (9.52 seconds) equates to a size of at least 109 km diameter.

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