Polyxo

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NOW @ 1 CAP 34
FOUND @ 6 LIB 37
 
Inclination: 4.363
Eccentricity: 0.039
Period: 4.56 years
AU 2.75
Type: 0000

Discovery Chart

31.3.1891 00:00 Marseilles 5e24 43n18 observations 0


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Named for a priestress of Apollo’s {see planet  (1862)} temple in Lemnos and the nurse of Queen Hypsipyle {see planet  (587)}. She advised the Lemnian women to murder their husbands, and suggested to Hypsipyle welcoming the Argonauts so that they would father sons by the Lemnian women, in order that the race would not become extinct. Polyxo is also the name of one of the Hyades which were said to have been originally nymphs, daughters of Atlas and the Oceanid Aethra {see planet  (132)}. This second interpretation seems more likely because Borrelly named another planet after a Hyades member — see planet  (322). (Z 218; LDS) _ _.


Discovered on 31-3-1891 in Marseilles by Borrelly, A.

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