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Urania is the goddess of astronomy and stars, her attributes being the globe and compass. ... The main belt asteroid (30) Urania was also named after her.
Astraea was the fifth asteroid discovered, on 8 December 1845, by Karl Ludwig Hencke and named for Astraea, a Greek goddess of justice named after the stars. It was his first of two asteroid discoveries. The second was 6 Hebe. A German amateur astronomer and post office headmaster, Hencke was looking for 4 Vesta when he stumbled on Astraea.
Selene is the Greek proper name for the Moon, [157] and 580 Selene, a minor planet in the asteroid belt, is also named after this goddess. [158] Scientific study of the Moon, particularly lunar geology, is sometimes referred to as selenology, and its practitioners selenologists, to distinguish from Earth-based study.
The goddess was however most often depicted on the coins of Acre under the traits of the Greek goddess Tyche in the latter's role as the patron goddess of a municipality, in which capacity she was represented as seated on a rock, wearing a crown made of crenellated towers, and placing one foot on the shoulder of a young swimmer who personnified ...
This asteroid was the 3rd to be discovered and is 9th in mass ranking (1 Ceres, 2 Pallas, 4 Vesta, 10 Hygiea, 511 Davida, 704 Interamnia, 65 Cybele, 52 Europa are considerably bigger and more massive). In mythology Juno is the Roman equivalent of the Greek Hera. Hera was a very important goddess in both Greek and Roman culture.
Vesta (minor-planet designation: 4 Vesta) is one of the largest objects in the asteroid belt, with a mean diameter of 525 kilometres (326 mi). [10] It was discovered by the German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers on 29 March 1807 [6] and is named after Vesta, the virgin goddess of home and hearth from Roman mythology.
The Main Belt asteroid 385 Ilmatar is named after the goddess. In the book The Quantum Thief , members of a humanoid race living in the Oort cloud sometimes pray to Kuutar and Ilmatar. Tales Eldelórne trilogy by Karleigh Bon, book one , introduces Ilmatar as the "womb of their gods, where immortal elves are reborn". 2014-2019
99942 Apophis, near Earth asteroid; Apep (star system), triple star system that is a gamma-ray burst progenitor in the Milky Way; Ethnoherpetology; Referenced in John Langan's The Fisherman as Apophis, the world-girdling serpent harnessed as a source of magical potency