Hebe - Grand Rapids, MI - Extraterrestrial Locations on Waymarking.com

The Hebe Fountain was cast in 1893 by the J.L. Mott Iron Works. From the Smithsonian listing: "A two tiered fountain topped by a bare-breasted female figure representing Hebe, the Greek Goddess of Youth. She holds a wine goblet in her raised proper left hand and a pitcher in her raised proper right hand. Four naked cherubs are perched around the rim of the second tier. Beneath the second tier are two swans and four little children. The fountain is installed in the center of a large circular basin." Hebe in ancient Greek religion and mythology, is the goddess of youth or the prime of life. She is the beautiful daughter of Zeus and his wife, Hera. Hebe was the cupbearer for the gods and goddesses of Mount Olympus, serving their nectar and ambrosia until she married Heracles (Roman equivalent: Hercules); her successor was the divine hero Ganymede. Another title of hers for this reason is Ganymeda, meaning "Gladdening Princess". Hebe was worshipped as the goddess of forgiveness or mercy at Sicyon.

In the sky Hebe 6 is s a large main-belt asteroid, containing around 0.5% of the mass of the belt. However, due to its apparently high bulk density (greater than that of the Moon or even Mars), Hebe does not rank among the top twenty asteroids by volume. This high bulk density suggests an extremely solid body that has not been impacted by collisions, which is not typical of asteroids of its size – they tend to be loosely-bound rubble piles.
In brightness, Hebe is the fifth-brightest object in the asteroid belt after Vesta, Ceres, Iris, and Pallas. It has a mean opposition magnitude of +8.3, about equal to the mean brightness of Titan, and can reach +7.5 at an opposition near perihelion.
Hebe may be the parent body of the H chondrite meteorites, which account for about 40% of all meteorites striking Earth.

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