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466 Tisiphone is an asteroid. It was discovered by Max Wolf and Luigi Carnera on January 17, 1901. Its provisional name was 1901 FX. Jump to: navigation, search An asteroid is a small, solid object in our Solar System, orbiting the Sun. ... Maximilian Franz Joseph Cornelius Wolf (June 21, 1863 – October 3, 1932) was a German astronomer. ... Luigi Carnera (April 14, 1875 – July 30, 1962) was an Italian astronomer. ... Jump to: navigation, search January 17 is the 17th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1901 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...


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The asteroid 466 Tisiphone occulted a m = 9.2 star on January 5, 2006.
A south shift of the path caused the Houston area observers to have a miss observation.
Tisiphone was discovered by M. Wolf and L. Carnera on January 17, 1901.
Greek Mythology: ERINYES Goddesses of Fury, Vengeance, Punishment, Madness & Curses ( also Erinys Furiae Dirae ) ... (13344 words)
Tisiphone, dishevelled as she was, shook her white hair and tossed aside the snakes that masked her face...
Tisiphone brought with her poisons too of magic power: lip-froth of Cerberus, the Echidna’s venom, wild deliriums, blindnesses of the brain, and crime and tears, and maddened lust for murder; all ground up, mixed with fresh blood, boiled in a pan of bronze, and stirred with a green hemlock stick.
But neither the celestial Sire nor any of the gods were at his altars, but baneful Tisiphone mingling with the affrighted attendants stands near, and to the infernal Thunderer [Haides] turned aside his prayers...
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