About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 140. Not illustrated. Chapters: 2101 Adonis, 1400 Tirela, 1404 Ajax, 1391 Carelia, 1421 Esperanto, 2106 Hugo, 1651 Behrens, 1399 Teneriffa, 2137 Priscilla, 2067 Aksnes, 1408 Trusanda, 1605 Milankovitch, 1398 Donnera, 1435 Garlena, 1405 Sibelius, 1515 Perrotin, 1394 Algoa, 2043 Ortutay, 1797 Schaumasse, 1816 Liberia, 2021 Poincare, 1755 Lorbach, 1637 Swings, 1395 Aribeda, 1436 Salonta, 4849 Ardenne, 1490 Limpopo, 1396 Outeniqua, 1402 Eri, 2242 Balaton, 1379 Lomonosowa, 1730 Marceline, 2226 Cunitza, 1406 Komppa, 1949 Messina, 3761 Romanskaya, 1692 Subbotina, 1393 Sofala, 1454 Kalevala, 1397 Umtata, 4420 Alandreev, 1631 Kopff, 1476 Cox, 2331 Parvulesco, 1377 Roberbauxa, 2166 Handahl, 2020 Ukko, 1403 Idelsonia, 1723 Klemola, 3534 Sax, 1378 Leonce, 1392 Pierre, 1423 Jose, 1927 Suvanto, 1434 Margot, 4649 Sumoto, 10449 Takuma, 1422 Stromgrenia, 1380 Volodia, 1407 Lindelof, 1564 Srbija, 2347 Vinata, 3568 Ascii. Excerpt: 2101 Adonis was one of the first near-Earth asteroids to be discovered. It was discovered by Eugene Delporte in 1936 and named after Adonis, the beautiful youth with whom the goddess Venus fell in love. Adonis is believed to measure approximately 1 km in diameter. In the close approach that led to its initial discovery, not enough observations could be made to calculate an orbit, and Adonis was a lost asteroid until 1977 when it was rediscovered by Charles T. Kowal. Adonis was the second Apollo asteroid to be discovered (after 1862 Apollo itself). It may be an extinct comet, and may be the source of some meteor showers. Adonis makes close approaches to Venus, Earth, and Mars. It comes within 30 Gm of the Earth six times in the 21st century, the nearest being 5.3 Gm in 2036. See Asteroids in fiction.In the 1954 Tintin comic book Explorers on the Moon, a drunken Captain Haddock almost becomes a satellite of the asteroid, wh...
