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433 Eros

433 Eros

Recorded

Near-Earth asteroid (433) Eros. NEAR Shoemaker orbited and landed. Named geography of lovers. Not asteroid 16 Psyche.

Asteroid 433 Eros photographed by NEAR Shoemaker from orbit, a tan, cratered, saddle-shaped rock looking down on its north polar region, the broad saddle Himeros at center.

Photo · NASA/JPL/JHUAPL · PUBLIC DOMAIN

The love asteroid. NEAR mapped it. The IAU named its craters for lovers. Himeros is longing and reduces to 42. Psyche crater is the soul and does not. Hinks Dorsum prints 42.00° north. The site is eros.grok.me. Sixteen Psyche is another world.

Four named

Hearth. Soul. Love. Longing.

Vesta is the hearth. Psyche is the soul. Eros is love. Himeros is longing. Four names from one old story, hung on four different rocks and one crater. The 42s are not the same kind. A spin pole is not a density. A cipher is not a catalogue number. The looking holds them without pretending they are one law.

  • 42.23°Vesta

    Hearth

    The sacred fire. Spin pole. Moment 0.4208. Another world.

  • 4.2016 Psyche

    Soul

    Metal world NASA is flying toward. Not the crater on Eros.

  • 433433 Eroshere

    Love

    The love asteroid. Catalogue seat, not a 42. The 42s are rooms.

  • 42Himeros

    Longing

    Attendant of Eros. English letters. A bowl on the love rock.

What it supports

IAU asteroid (433) Eros. NEAR Shoemaker. USGS named features approved 2003. This card is the rock those rooms belong to. The 42s are the rooms.

What it does not

Not a 42. Four hundred thirty-three is the catalogue seat. Not asteroid 16 Psyche. Not a proof that love is the Answer. Cipher is Himeros. Latitude is Hinks.

ExactnessDesignation

FormOther form

Unitcatalogue

Strengthhard

When2000

Hung15 September 2026

Source

JPL SBDB · (433) Eros

Owner

Eros