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Psyche crater
Psyche
Psyche crater on 433 Eros. IAU 2003. USGS Feature 4857. Beloved of Eros; personification of the human soul. Not asteroid 16 Psyche.
Beloved of Eros.
Personification of the human soul.
NEAR Shoemaker · named geography
NASA / JPL / JHUAPL. PIA03117. The same named map of 433 Eros. Psyche crater is the smaller bowl of the soul. Himeros is the larger bowl of longing. They are not asteroid 16 Psyche.
A child can hear a crater named for the soul. Psyche, beloved of Eros, about 4.8 kilometres across, found by NEAR Shoemaker. It is not a 42. The English letters do not add to forty-two. Himeros on the same rock does. Asteroid 16 Psyche is a different world, and it has its own door.
Open USGS Psyche →Himeros crater →16 Psyche →433 Eros →Enter Psyche →
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.
soulPsyche craterhere
Beloved of Eros. Not asteroid 16. Not a 42.
- 42Himeros
Crater. Longing. English full reduction.
- 42.00°Hinks Dorsum
Ridge. Catalogue latitude.
Asteroid 16 is another world. 16 Psyche · 4 Vesta · psyche.grok.me · eros.grok.me. Narcissus crater is a USGS neighbor, not a 42.
On the love asteroid there is a crater named for the soul. Psyche, beloved of Eros. NEAR found it. The IAU kept the name. It is not a 42. Himeros, longing, sits on the same rock and is. Asteroid 16 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 Eros
Love
The love asteroid. Catalogue seat, not a 42. The 42s are rooms.
42Himeroshere
Longing
Attendant of Eros. English letters. A bowl on the love rock.
What it supports
An IAU-adopted crater on 433 Eros, Feature 4857, approved 2003. USGS origin: beloved of Eros; personification of human soul in Greek mythology. Diameter 4.80 km, center 31.60°N 94.60°W. Speech of a gazetteer. The 42 on this rock is next door.
What it does not
Not a 42. English PSYCHE does not sum to 42. Not asteroid 16 Psyche. Not HIMEROS = 42. Not Hinks Dorsum 42.00°. The soul crater is not the metal world.
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FormOther form
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Strengthhard
When2003
Hung15 September 2026