Discovery date September 14, 1860 Aphelion 550.315 Gm (3.679 AU) Semi-major axis 467.092 Gm (3.122 AU) Orbits Sun Named after Erato | Minor planet category Main belt Perihelion 383.868 Gm (2.566 AU) Discovered 14 September 1860 Spectral type C-type asteroid Asteroid family Themis family | |
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Discovered by Oskar Lesser and Wilhelm Julius Foerster Discoverers Wilhelm Julius Foerster, Otto Lesser Similar 61 Danaë, 76 Freia, 80 Sappho, 56 Melete, 34 Circe | ||
62 Erato (/ˈɛrətoʊ/ ERR-ə-toh) is a large and dark, probably carbonaceous Themistian asteroid. It is a member of the Eos family.
Erato is the first asteroid to have been credited with co-discoverers, Oskar Lesser and Wilhelm Forster, who discovered it on September 14, 1860 from the Berlin Observatory. It was their first and only asteroid discovery. The name was chosen by Johann Franz Encke, director of the observatory, and refers to Erato, the Muse of lyric poetry in Greek mythology.
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