62 Erato Asteroid & Erato, Muse of lyric poetry - Praha, CZ
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N 50° 04.246 E 014° 25.354
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62 Erato is a carbonaceous Themistian asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately 95 kilometers in diameter. In Greek mythology, Erato is one of the Greek Muses.
Waymark Code: WMXAY3
Location: Hlavní město Praha, Czechia
Date Posted: 12/19/2017
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In Greek mythology, Erato is one of the Greek Muses. The name would mean "desired" or "lovely", if derived from the same root as Eros, as Apollonius of Rhodes playfully suggested in the invocation to Erato that begins Book III of his Argonautica. Erato is the Muse of lyric poetry. In the Orphic hymn to the Muses, it is Erato who charms the sight.
Erato is the first asteroid to have been credited with co-discoverers, Oskar Lesser and Wilhelm Forster, who discovered it on September 14, 1860, from the Berlin Observatory. It was their first and only asteroid discovery. The name was chosen by Johann Franz Encke, director of the observatory, and refers to Erato, the Muse of lyric poetry in Greek mythology.
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