14 Irene () is a large
main-belt asteroid
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, discovered by the English astronomer
John Russell Hind on May 19, 1851. It is orbiting the
Sun at a distance of with a
period of and an
eccentricity of 0.168. The
orbital plane is tilted at an angle of 9.1° to the
plane of the ecliptic.
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14 Irene was named after '' Irēnē'', a personification of peace in ]Greek mythology
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. She was one of the Horae, daughter of Zeus and Themis. The name was suggested by Sir John Herschel. Hind wrote,
:"You will readily discover that this name ..has some relation to this event (the Great Industrial Exhibition) which is now filling our metropolis ondonwith the talent of all civilised nations, with those of Peace, the productions of Art and Science, in which all mankind must feel an interest."
The ''Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations'' in the Crystal Palace of Hyde Park, London
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, ran from May 1 until October 18, 1851.
Hind suggested that the symbol for the asteroid should be "A dove carrying an olive-branch, with a star on its head", but it was hardly drawn before the use of graphical symbols to represent asteroids was dropped entirely. It is in the pipeline for Unicode
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17.0 as U+1CEC7 ().[ It is spinning with a rotation period of 15 hours.][
There have been seven reported stellar occultation events by Irene. The best is a three chord event observed in 2013.]
See also
* Former classification of planets
Notes
References
* Gould, B.A.,
New planet
', Astronomical Journal, Vol. 2, iss. 27, p. 22, June 1851
External links
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Background asteroids
Irene
Irene
S-type asteroids (Tholen)
S-type asteroids (SMASS)
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