It was discovered by Belgian astronomer Eric Elst at ESO's La Silla Observatory in northern Chile on 4 October 1996.
It is located in the leading Greek camp at the Gas Giant's L4 Lagrangian point, 60° ahead of its orbit (see Trojans in astronomy).
Heracles solved the difficult and humiliating feat by rerouting two rivers to wash out the enormous amount of dung.
[10] In August 2015, photometric observations by the Kepler space telescope during its K2 mission determined a refined period of 11.934±0.119 hours with a brightness variation of 0.15 magnitude (U=2-).
[11] According to the survey carried out by the NEOWISE mission of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, Augeias measures 33.96 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo of 0.067,[6] while the Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link assumes a standard albedo for a carbonaceous asteroid of 0.057 and calculates a diameter of 35.12 kilometers based on an absolute magnitude of 11.0.