nr ↓ | name ↓ | Name Source ↓ |
344 | Desiderata | Named probably in honor of Désirée Clary of Marseilles who became the wife of General Jean-Baptiste |
433 | Eros | Named after the Greek god of love (in Latin called Cupido or Amor), son of Mercury and Venus. He pro |
499 | Venusia | Named for the insula Venusia, or Hveen, island in the Sound between Denmark and Sweden, provided by |
763 | Cupido | Named after the Roman god of erotic love because of its relatively small distance from the Sun. See |
1221 | Amor | Amor is the Latin name for the Greek Eros, the god of love. Like (433) Eros this planet makes close |
1387 | Kama | The name of a large river in USSR east of Kasan, and a tributary to the Volga. (M 838) |
1388 | Aphrodite | Named for the Greek goddess of love and beauty, daughter of Zeus and Dione {see planets (5731) and |
1629 | Pecker | Named by the discoverer in honor of Prof. Jean-Claude Pecker {1923– }, director of the Nice Observat |
4386 | Lust | Named in honor of Reimar Lüst (1923– ), German astronomer, former director general of the Max-Planck |
7328 | Casanova | Giovanni Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798) was a writer, spy and diplomat, the prince of Italian adventur |