Statue
The Capitoline Wolf Statue with Romulus & Remus is a gift from 1921 from
Italy to the city of Cluj, Romania and now located on Eroilor Boulevard.
"After the Union of Transylvania with Romania of 1 December 1918, the
University of Upper Dacia was organised at Cluj, ultimately being renamed
King Ferdinand I University. It was officially opened on 1 February 1920 in
the presence of King Ferdinand I and of the royal family. Representatives of
the Allies of World War I and of countries neutral during the First World
War were also present.
The statue symbolised the unity of Romanians from all parts of the
country and their Latinity. The Cluj-Napoca monument, brought to Cluj by a
delegation of 200 Italians, mostly students, is a faithful copy of the
Capitoline Wolf, with Romulus and Remus
beneath her. To it was added a bas-relief of Emperor Trajan, executed by
sculptor Ettore Ferrari, along with the inscription 'Alla citta di Cluj,
Roma Madre, MCMXXI' ('To the City of Cluj, Mother Rome, 1921'). It was
decided to place the monument in Unirii Square, in front of the Statue of
Matthias Corvinus. The first Romanian mayor of Cluj, Iulian Pop, unveiled
the monument on 28 September 1921 in the presence of over 25,000 residents.
[...]"
Source and further information:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitoline_Wolf_Statue,_Cluj-Napoca
Moon Romulus
"Romulus is the outer and larger moon of the main-belt asteroid
87 Sylvia. It follows an almost-circular and close-to-equatorial orbit
around the asteroid. In this respect it is similar to the other Sylvian moon
Remus.
Romulus was discovered in February 2001 from the Keck II telescope by
Michael E. Brown and Jean-Luc Margot. Its full designation is (87) Sylvia I
Romulus; before receiving its name, it was known as S/2001 (87) 1. The moon
is named after Romulus, the mythological founder of Rome, one of the twins
of Rhea Silvia raised by a wolf.
87 Sylvia has a low density, which indicates that it is probably a
rubble pile formed when debris from a collision between its parent body and
another asteroid re-accreted gravitationally. Therefore, it is likely that
both Romulus and Remus, the second of Sylvia's moons, are smaller rubble
piles which accreted in orbit around the main body from debris of the same
collision. In this case their albedo and density are expected to be similar
to Sylvia's.
Romulus's orbit is expected to be quite stable - it lies far inside
Sylvia's Hill sphere (about 1/50 of Sylvia's Hill radius), but also far
outside the synchronous orbit.
From Romulus's surface, Sylvia takes up an angular region 16°×10°
across, while Remus's apparent size varies between 0.62° and 0.19° (for
comparison, Earth's Moon has an apparent size of about 0.5°)."
Source and further information:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romulus_(moon)
Moon Remus
"Remus is the inner and smaller moon of the main-belt asteroid 87 Sylvia.
It follows an almost-circular and close-to-equatorial orbit around the
parent asteroid. In this respect it is similar to the other Sylvian moon
Romulus.
Remus was discovered several years after Romulus on images taken starting
on August 9, 2004, and announced on August 10, 2005. It was discovered by
Franck Marchis of UC Berkeley, and Pascal Descamps, Daniel Hestroffer, and
Jérôme Berthier of the Observatoire de Paris, France, using the Yepun
telescope of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Chile. Marchis, the
project leader, was waiting for the completion of the image acquisition
programme before starting to process the data. Just as he was set to go on
vacation in March 2005, Descamps sent him a brief note entitled "87 Sylvia
est triple ?" pointing out that he could see two moonlets on several images
of Sylvia. The entire team then focused quickly on analysis of the data,
wrote a paper, submitted an abstract to the August meeting in Rio de Janeiro
and submitted a naming proposal to the IAU.
Its full designation is (87) Sylvia II Remus; before receiving its name,
it was known as S/2004 (87) 1. The moon is named after Remus, twin of the
mythological founder of Rome, one of the children of Rhea Silvia raised by a
wolf.
87 Sylvia has a low density, which indicates that it is probably a rubble
pile asteroid formed when debris from a collision between its parent body
and another asteroid re-accreted gravitationally. Thus it is likely that
both Remus and Romulus are smaller rubble piles which accreted in orbit
around the main body from debris of the same collision. In this case their
albedo and density are expected to be similar to Sylvia's.
Remus's orbit is expected to be quite stable: it lies far inside Sylvia's
Hill sphere (about 1/100 of Sylvia's Hill radius), but also far outside the
synchronous orbit.
From Remus's surface, Sylvia appears huge, taking up an angular region
roughly 30°×18° across, while Romulus's apparent size varies between 1.6°
and 0.5° across."
Source and further information:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remus_(moon)