Statue
The Capitoline Wolf Statue with Romulus & Remus is standing on a
pedestal in front of
the National History Museum in Chisinau, Moldova.
On the pedestal is a
citation of Mihai Eminescu:
DE LA ROMA VENIM
DIN DACIA TRAIANĂ
Eminescu
This translates to "We come from Rome, from Dacia Traiana" (also see
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Dacia).
"Capitoline Wolf, Chișinău
Overview
During the first decades of the 20th century, Kingdom of Italy
donated to Kingdom of Romania five copies of the Capitoline Wolf, which were
installed in Chişinău (1921), Bucharest (1906), Cluj-Napoca (1921), Târgu
Mureş (1924) and Timișoara (1926). In Chişinău, the monument was completed
in 1923 and placed in front of Sfatul Țării Palace. In 1940, at the
beginning of the Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, the
copy from Chişinău was destroyed.
In 1990, Romania donated a new copy of Capitoline Wolf to Moldova.
This statue was unveiled in front of the National History Museum of Moldova
on December 1, 1990.
Restoration 2005–2009
Soon after the 2005 election, the bronze statue was removed from its
pedestal for restoration in April 2005. The monument was stored in the
basement of the National History Museum and the restoration depended on the
political context. The monument was re-unveiled just on December 1, 2009, a
few months after July 2009 election, when the Alliance For European
Integration pushed the Party of Communists into opposition."
Source:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitoline_Wolf,_Chișinău
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)