Aphrodite

(1935 SS )

CURRENT POSITION: 27 VIR 56

DISCOVERY POSITION: 29 ARI 6

Incl: 11.18906

Eccent: 0.0896587

Period: 5.2506116322108 years

AU 3.0208318

Type: 0000

Discovery Chart

24.9.1935 23:45 Uccle 4e21 50n48 observations 1

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Named for the Greek goddess of love and beauty, daughter of Zeus and Dione {see planets (5731) and (106)} in the Iliad but in later poems it is said that she sprung from the foam of the sea near Cyprus. According to later poems she was the mother of Eros {see planet (433)}. (H 126)

Name proposed by the Astronomisches Rechen-Institut (RI 1702).

Discovered on 24-9-1935 in Uccle by Delporte, E.
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