2876 Aeschylus

2876 Aeschylus is a small main belt asteroid, which was discovered at Palomar Observatory by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels on 24 September 1960.^[1] It is named after Aeschylus, the ancient Greek tragic dramatist.

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1. ^ Small-Body Database Browser at Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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