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| rdfs:comment | - 1986VG1 was discovered by astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the Haute-Provence Observatory in southeastern France, and was named "Ulysses" after the main character of Homer's Odyssey. Being a small moon on the orbit of Jupiter, it was not deemed a threat by its finders. At some point in 1994, Ulysses was impacted by Polyphemus, a standalone Jupiter Trojan not discovered until that point, causing the former to split into a cluster of over ten thousand meteors.
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| abstract | - 1986VG1 was discovered by astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the Haute-Provence Observatory in southeastern France, and was named "Ulysses" after the main character of Homer's Odyssey. Being a small moon on the orbit of Jupiter, it was not deemed a threat by its finders. At some point in 1994, Ulysses was impacted by Polyphemus, a standalone Jupiter Trojan not discovered until that point, causing the former to split into a cluster of over ten thousand meteors. The swarm of asteroids formed by the impact event adopted an orbit synchronous with the Sun rather than Jupiter that would eventually cross with Earth, causing humanity to build the Stonehenge interception networks in an attempt to defend against the impending impact. The cluster reached Earth in 1999 and struck multiple regions across the world, causing the Ulysses Disaster.
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