2101 Adonis was one of the first near-Earth asteroids to be discovered. It was discovered by Eugene Delporte in 1936 and named after Adonis, the beautiful youth with whom the goddess Venus fell in love. Adonis is believed to measure approximately 1 km in diameter. Eugène Joseph Delporte (January 10, 1882 – October 19, 1955) was a Belgian astronomer. ... Jump to: navigation, search February 12 is the 43rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1936 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The provisional designation of comets and asteroids are similar to each other: they both follow a pattern set in 1925 by the Minor Planet Center of the IAU. Historical designations At first, astronomers strove to assign symbols to the minor planets: 1 Ceres a stylized sickle 2 Pallas a lozenge... 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Jump to: navigation, search A 19th-century reproduction of a Greek bronze of Adonis found at Pompeii A Syrian dying-and-reborn annual vegetation god imported into Greek mythology but always retaining aspects of his Semitic Near Eastern origins, Adonis was one of the most complex cult figures in classical... Jump to: navigation, search Venus is a Roman goddess principally associated with love, broadly, although not completely, equivalent to Greek Aphrodite and Etruscan Turan. ...

In the close approach that led to its initial discovery, not enough observations could be made to calculate an orbit, and Adonis was lost until 1977 when it was rediscovered by Charles T. Kowal. Jump to: navigation, search 1977 was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1977 calendar). ... Charles Thomas Kowal (born November 8, 1940) is an American astronomer. ...

Adonis was the second Apollo asteroid to be discovered (after 1862 Apollo itself). The Apollo asteroids are a group of near-Earth asteroids named after 1862 Apollo, the first asteroid of this group to be discovered. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1862 Apollo is a Q-type asteroid, discovered by Karl Reinmuth in 1932, but lost and not recovered until 1973. ...

Adonis in fiction

Adonis makes an appearance in On a marché sur la Lune (Explorers on the Moon), one of the Tintin comic albums. As Tintin and his friends are en route to the moon, Adonis unexpectedly comes perilously close to the spacecraft. During a spacewalk, Captain Haddock inadvertently goes into orbit around the asteroid and has to be rescued. Explorers on the Moon (originally On a marché sur la Lune) is one of a series of classic comic-strip albums, written and illustrated by Belgian writer and illustrator Hergé, featuring young reporter Tintin as a hero. ... Tintin and Snowy (Tintin et Milou) are world travellers and inseparable friends in The Adventures of Tintin. ... Astronaut Bruce McCandless on an untethered EVA Extra-vehicular activity (EVA) is work done by an astronaut away from the Earth and outside of his or her spacecraft. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Adventures of Tintin (originally Les Aventures de Tintin), drawn and written by the Belgian writer-artist Georges Remi a. ...

External links

• Long-lost planet 1936 CA ("Adonis") recovered

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