Asteroid 43706, Iphiklos, a Jupiter Trojan, was discovered on September 29, 1973 by C. J. van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld on photographic plates taken by Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory near Pauma Valley, California. It has a period of 11 years, 232 days.
It was named for Iphiklos, uncle of Jason and one of the Argonauts, a cattle baron who was the father of the Greek heroes Protesilaos, the first Greek warrior killed at Troy, and Podarkes, who took command of the soldiers from Thessaly at Troy when Protesilaos was killed. He caught Melampus, the seer who could understand the speech of animals, trying to steal his cattle because he wanted to marry Nereus' daughter Pero; Nereus had offered her to any man who could steal Iphiklos' cattle. Iphiklos made Melampus work for him as a seer for a year and then gave him the cattle he needed to marry Pero.
Astrologically, Iphiklos seems to indicate powerful, resource-rich, generous, a "sugar daddy," in another's shadow, "mere mortal.".