Asteroid 4836, Medon, a Jupiter Trojan, was discovered on February 2, 1989 by Carolyn S. Shoemaker and Eugene M. Shoemaker at Palomar Observatory near Pauma Valley, California. It has a period of 11 years, 287 days and is about 50½ miles in diameter.
Medon was named for a out-of-wedlock son of Oileus who was the half-brother of Ajax Oiliades (also known as Little Ajax or Ajax the Lesser). Medon lived in exile for having killed a relative of his stepmother. He fought bravely at Troy, but was killed at the Greek ships by Aeneas.
There was also a centaur named Medon, who ended up fleeing the deadly fight with the Lapiths in which Bienor, Thereus, Cyllarus and Hylonome were killed; and the herald of Odysseus was named Medon. This Medon managed to remain faithful to him even though he was forced to serve the insolent suitors of Penelope in Odysseus' absence, and was spared by Odysseus and Telemachus when they killed the suitors.
The name Medon is Greek means "leader" or "wise and persuasive."
Astrologically, Medon seems to indicate the truth about oneself or somebody else, coercion and how one deals with it, loyalty/disloyalty issues.
George W. Bush is an obstinate man who values loyalty, faith and secrecy over truth and openness and has not as much regard for human rights as he should have, as has been borne out by his record as president and as governor of Texas despite promises and minor, highly publicized and probably politically motivated gestures. He has Medon in the fifth house conjunct the South Node (past influences, separations), trine Venus (values) and Heracles (to contend with), biquintile Saturn (work, career, rewards and consequences), opposite Uranus (radicalism) , Pandora (to stir things up, make a splash) and North Node (making connections).
Jim Morrison, the late, legendary frontman for The Doors, was unrepentant following a dubious arrest for public indecency following a concert in Miami. Told by a Los Angeles club owner not to use a certain four-letter word in his lyrics, he promptly went ahead and sang it, as loud as he could. He was constantly unfaithful to his wife and girlfriends. He had Medon in the eighth house of legacies, semisquare the Vertex (significant relationships) and trine Saturn and the East Point (as the world sees you).
Janet Jackson (born May 16, 1966, in Gary, Indiana), on the other hand, caved following her breast-flashing performance at the 2004 Super Bowl with Justin Timberlake, as did he. She has Medon square Mars (anger) and Neptune (scandal) and opposite Pholus (need to show respect).
Justin "Wardrobe Malfunction" Timberlake (born January 31, 1981, in Memphis) has Medon semisquare Juno (public persona, civil rights), quintile Saturn, square Damocles (crisis, politics, experience of groupthink) and quincunx Nessus (unpleasantness).
John Walker Lindh (born February 9, 1981, in Washington), a foolish young man who got the idea while studying Islam in Yemen that being a Muslim required him to go fight for the Taliban, has Medon semisextile Cruithne (branded), semisquare Venus and Juno (giving away power), sextile the Sun (celebrity), quintile Mercury (the media, ideas, thinking, speech), Jupiter (religion) and Saturn, square Heracles and Damocles, and trine Asbolus (awful things, bad advice, advice given).
The glyph for Medon is mine.