Outer main belt objects

Minor planets located in the outer main belt.

Detail from statue of Rhea Silvia by Jacopo della Quercia.
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Focus On: (87) Sylvia

Rhea Silvia was forced to become a Vestal Virgin by her uncle Amulius to prevent her conceiving, but Mars had other ideas. Their sons were sent to die but rescued and suckled by a she-wolf, and eventually grew up to overthrow Amulius and reinstate their grandfather Numitor as king, before moving on to found Rome.

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Detail of Heimdall returns Brísingamen to Freyja (1846), oil painting by Nils Blommér.
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Focus On: (76) Freia

Freyja is a Norse goddess associated with love, sex, beauty, fertility, gold, seiðr, war, and death. Freyja is the owner of the necklace Brísingamen, rides a chariot pulled by two cats, is accompanied by the boar Hildisvíni, and possesses a cloak of falcon feathers. She is a member of the Vanir.

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Floor mosaic at the House of Mnemosyne in Antioch, dated 2nd-3rd century CE. The goddess places her hand on the back of a man's head, symbolically aiding his memory.
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Focus On: (57) Mnemosyne

Name origin: Greek Goddess of memory. In the Greek tradition, Mnemosyne is one of the Titans, the twelve divine children of the earth-goddess Gaia and the sky-god Uranus. She is also the mother of the nine Muses by her nephew Zeus.

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Detail of Themis with scales: sculpture at Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan.
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Focus On: (24) Themis

Name origin: Greek Titan goddess of divine law and order. Themis presides specifically over the traditional rules of conduct first established by the gods. She was also a prophetic goddess who presided over the most ancient oracles, including Delphi.

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