Myron


Asteroid 4752, Myron, was discovered on September 29, 1973 by CJ van Houten and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Mountain Observatory near Pauma Valley, California in the course of the Palomar-Leiden Survey. It has a period of 5 years, 156 days.

It was named for the ancient Greek sculptor Myron of Eleutherse, who lived in the 5th century BCE; perhaps his most famous work is Discobolos (The Discus Thrower), which has been copied from its original bronze to marble.

The meaning of asteroid Myron seems to be: smelling bad, "how you see the show depends on where you sit."



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