An Etymological Dictionary of Astronomy and Astrophysics

The largest → near-Earth asteroid, which is about 32 km in size. It belongs to the group of → Amor asteroids and has a → rotation period of about 10.31h.
Ganymed was discovered by Walter Baade on October 23, 1924.

See also: German rendering of → Ganymede. Note that Jupiter’s moon Ganymede is named after the same, but uses a different spelling.