Hecuba gap objects

Minor planets located in the Hecuba gap, in a 2:1 mean-motion resonance with Jupiter.

Detail of mosaic featuring Cyrene from the 2nd century CE, at the Lambaesis archaeological site, Algeria.
Asteroids, Focus On, Hecuba gap objects, Main belt objects, Outer main belt objects, Pisces discovery

Focus On: (133) Cyrene

Name origin: Thessalian princess in Greek myth. Kyrene was the daughter of King Hypseus of the Lapiths. She was a famed huntress who guarded her father’s herds on Mount Pelion, killing predators. One day, when she was wrestling a lion, the god Apollo saw her and at once fell in love. He carried her to the Hill of Myrtles (Myrtoessa) in Libya, where she bore him a son named Aristaios.

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