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Asteroids, Focus On, Leo discovery, Main belt objects, Outer main belt objects

Focus On: (130) Elektra

Theano / January 1, 2024 / Ceres resonance, Earth resonance, Jupiter resonance, Leo node, Mars resonance, Saturn resonance, Venus resonance

Name origin: Greek mythical daughter of Agamemnon and Klytaemnestra. After their mother murders their father, Elektra and her brother Orestes plot to kill Klytaemnestra and her lover Aegisthus in revenge, on the orders of the Delphic Oracle.

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Leda and the Swan, 16th-century copy after the lost original by Michelangelo.

Asteroids, Focus On, Leo discovery, Main belt objects

Focus On: (38) Leda

Theano / January 1, 2024 / Capricorn node, Earth resonance, Jupiter resonance, Mars resonance, Mercury resonance, Saturn resonance

Name origin: Aetolian princess who became a Spartan queen; mother of the Dioscuri, Clytaemnestra and Helen, after Zeus seduced her in the guise of a swan.

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