Asteroid Eureka discovered

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20 June, 1990

Asteroid Eureka was discovered on 20th June 1990 by astronomers David H. Levy and Henry Holt from the Palomar Observatory. Eureka was the first Mars Trojan to be discovered.

A Mars trojan is an celestial body that shares the orbit of the planet Mars.