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| 42355 | Typhon | The secondary object (42355) Typhon I, discovered 2006 Jan. 20 by K. Noll, W. Grundy, D. Stephens an |
| 32532 | Thereus | The centaur Thereus was a hunter who captured bears and carried them home, alive and struggling. |
| 90377 | Sedna | Sedna is the Inuit goddess of the sea and the mother of all sea creatures. She rewards the people of |
| 5145 | Pholus | This Chiron-type object is being named by the Minor Planet Names Committee for a centaur who, like C |
| 49036 | Pelion | Pelion is the mountain in Thessaly where the Centaurs were said to live. |
| 7066 | Nessus | Named for the centaur responsible for the death of Heracles {see planet (5143)}. Driven from his ho |
| 10370 | Hylonome | Fairest of all the female centaurs, the beautiful and civilized Hylonome was in love with the handso |
| 31824 | Elatus | The name of the centaur Elatus is associated with woodlands and means “fir man”, perhaps because he |
| 52975 | Cyllarus | The centaur Cyllarus was severely wounded by a spear in a battle that finally caused his death. On |
| 83982 | Crantor | Crantor was a Lapith who was killed by the centaur Demoleon in the battle between the Lapiths and th |
| 2060 | Chiron | The name is that of the wisest and most just of the Centaurs, son of Kronos and the ocean nymph Phil |
| 10199 | Chariklo | Chariklo, sometimes described as a sea nymph, sometimes as a female centaur, was the wife of Chiron. |
| 54598 | Bienor | Bienor, one of the centaurs who tried to kidnap the bride Hippodame and other women at the wedding o |
| 8405 | Asbolus | The “black one”, Asbolus was the centaur who supposedly made forecasts from the flight formations of |
| 55576 | Amycus | Amycus was the first centaur to engage in battle with the Lapiths after Eurytus was killed for rapin |