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Himeros
42
Himeros crater on 433 Eros. IAU 2003. USGS Feature 2508. English HIMEROS full reduction 42.
On the love asteroid there is a crater named for longing. Himeros, attendant of Eros, personification of the longing of love. NEAR found it. The IAU kept the name. The English letters of HIMEROS reduce to 42. Psyche crater, the soul, sits on the same rock. Narcissus too. The 42.00° ridge is another room.
Attendant of Eros.
Personification of the longing of love.
NEAR Shoemaker · named geography
NASA / JPL / JHUAPL. PIA03117. Simple cylindrical mosaic of 433 Eros with proposed names. The largest named feature is Himeros. Craters after lovers. The 42.00° ridge is Hinks Dorsum, another room.
CIPHER · full reduction
HIMEROS
A=1 · I=9 · S=1
- H8
- I9
- M4
- E5
- R9
- O6
- S1
42
A child can hear a crater named for wanting. Himeros is the largest named bowl on 433 Eros, about ten kilometres across, found by NEAR Shoemaker. Psyche crater sits on the same rock, named for the soul. Narcissus, for the one who loved a reflection. HIMEROS as English letters adds to forty-two. The crater’s own latitude is 21.20°. The 42.00° belongs to Hinks Dorsum, a ridge, another room.
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433 Eros
Longing. Soul. A ridge at 42°.
Craters on Eros are named for lovers. Psyche is the beloved, the soul. Himeros is the attendant, the longing of love. Narcissus is the reflection. Those names are IAU myth, 2003. HIMEROS reduces to 42 in English. That is a later spelling. Hinks Dorsum, a ridge named for an astronomer, prints center latitude 42.00° in the USGS gazetteer. Cipher is not the latitude. 16 Psyche is another world. Same potato-shaped rock. Several rooms.
42Himeroshere
Crater. Longing. English full reduction.
- 42.00°Hinks Dorsum
Ridge. Catalogue latitude.
Neighbors that are not 42s: Psyche crater · Narcissus crater. Open them on USGS. Do not mint them as Index objects.
What it supports
An IAU-adopted crater on 433 Eros, Feature 2508, approved 2003. USGS origin: attendant of Eros; personification of the longing of love. Diameter 10 km, center 21.20°N 282.30°W. Largest named crater on the body. A named-face cipher: H=8 I=9 M=4 E=5 R=9 O=6 S=1. Sum 42. Full reduction. Speech of a gazetteer first. Arithmetic afterward.
What it does not
Not the crater’s latitude. 21.20 is not 42. Not Hinks Dorsum 42.00°. Not asteroid 16 Psyche. Not a proof that longing is the Answer. Cipher is a door, not a hammer.
Calculation
HIMEROS full reduction: 8+9+4+5+9+6+1 = 42.
English full reduction. Gazetteer origin is the primary fact. Cipher is a named face.
ExactnessCipher result
Form42
Unitletters
Strengthhard
When2003
Hung12 September 2026