14 Irene

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Template:Minor Planet 14 Irene (eye-ree'-nee) is a very large Main belt asteroid. This stony asteroid contains also metallic iron-nickel.

It was discovered by J. R. Hind on May 19, 1851 and named after Eirene, a personification of peace in Greek mythology, one of the Horae, daughter of Zeus and Themis. The name was suggested by Sir John Herschel. Hind wrote,

You will readily discover that this name [...] has some relation to this event (the Great Industrial Exhibition) which is now filling our metropolis [London] with the talent of all civilised nations, with those of Peace, the productions of Art and Science, in which all mankind must feel an interest.

The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations in the Crystal Palace of Hyde Park, London ran from May 1 until October 18, 1851.

The fairly flat Irenian lightcurves indicate somewhat spherical proportions. There have been four reported stellar occultation events by Irene.

Aspects

Stationary, retrograde	Opposition	Distance to Earth	Brightness	Stationary, prograde	Conjunction to Sun
4 April 2005	17 May 2005	1.27771 AU	mag 9.0	3 July 2005	18 January 2006
17 July 2006	5 September 2006	1.98973 AU	mag 10.6	31 October 2006	10 April 2007
7 October 2007	26 November 2007	1.75378 AU	mag 10.0	17 January 2008	24 July 2008
11 March 2009	20 April 2009	1.19745 AU	mag 8.9	6 June 2009	2 January 2010
5 July 2010	22 August 2010	1.92476 AU	mag 10.4	16 October 2010	29 March 2011
22 September 2011	12 November 2011	1.86045 AU	mag 10.2	5 January 2012	1 July 2012
14 February 2013	21 March 2013	1.17939 AU	mag 8.9	7 May 2013	15 December 2013
21 June 2014	8 August 2014	1.83305 AU	mag 10.2	30 September 2014	17 March 2015
9 September 2015	29 October 2015	1.94395 AU	mag 10.4	24 December 2015	12 June 2016
16 January 2017	20 February 2017	1.22621 AU	mag 9.0	6 April 2017	24 November 2017
6 June 2018	24 July 2018	1.71769 AU	mag 10.0	12 September 2018	4 March 2019
27 August 2019	17 October 2019	2.00134 AU	mag 10.5	12 December 2019	26 May 2020
17 December 2020	25 January 2021	1.32394 AU	mag 9.1	11 March 2021	29 October 2020

Reference

• Gould, B. A., New planet, Astronomical Journal, Vol. 2, iss. 27, p. 22, June 1851

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