Horus

Asteroid Number 1924
Discovered 1960 Sept. 24 by C. J. van Houten and I. van Houten- Groeneveld at Leiden, on Palomar Schmidt plates taken by T. Gehrels.

Named for the son of Osiris, an Egyptian god in the shape of a falcon, king of the sky and the stars.

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