Name origin: Greek goddess of motherhood. Leto was one of the Titanides, a bride of Zeus, and the mother of the twins Artemis and Apollo. Alongside her children, she was a protectress of the young. Her name and iconography suggest she also represented modesty and demure womanhood.
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Phocaea or Phokaia (modern-day Foça in Turkey) was a city on the western coast of Anatolia. Greek colonists from Phocaea founded the city of Massalia (Marseille), from where the asteroid was discovered.
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Name origin: Greek nymph, one of the Seirenes (Sirens) – three monstrous sea-nymphs who lured sailors to their death with a bewitching song.
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Name origin: Greek goddess of wisdom and counsel, mother of Athene by Zeus.
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