Victoria (Victory) and Asteroid 12 Victoria – Keighley, UK
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N 53° 52.071 W 001° 54.545
30U E 571734 N 5969371
12 Victoria is a large main-belt asteroid, originally named after Queen Victoria it was changed to be officially named after the Roman Goddess Victoria, otherwise known as Victory, especially on war memorials.
Waymark Code: WMDMAN
Location: Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 01/30/2012
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The figure of Victory
This winged statue of Victory is on top of a war memorial and was originally erected and unveiled on 27th November 1924 in memory of the dead of the First World War. It was then amended after the 2nd world war to include the men of that war.
Victory is standing 35 feet in the air, and is holding a laurel wreath in her raised left hand and a palm frond in her lowered right hand.
The memorial is also flanked by figures of a soldier and a sailor.
In Roman times she was often worshipped by triumphant generals returning from war and hence can quite often be found on World War I memorials.
The memorial is a Grade II listed Building, English Heritage ID 1313949. http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1313949
It is also listed in the UK National Inventory of War Memorials under reference 2106. http://www.ukniwm.org.uk/server/show/conMemorial.2106/fromUkniwmSearch/1
The Asteroid
The asteroid was discovered on September 13th 1850 by J.R. Hind of the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London. http://cosmicdiary1894.blogspot.com/2009/02/jr-hind.html
He chose the name during the reign of Queen Victoria, but it was felt to be inappropriate to have the asteroid named after a living monarch.
However W. C. Bond, of the Harvard College Observatory held that the mythological condition was fulfilled and the name stayed as it was.
It has a diameter of 112.77 km, an orbital speed of 9.5 km/s and an orbital period of 3.57 Julian Years. It is the joint 117th largest known asteroid.
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