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Hylonome
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Number
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10370
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Provisional name
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1995 DW2
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Class
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Centaur
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Discovery date
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27.02.1995
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Discovery chart
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Discovery position
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4° Libra 42' Rx
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Time of announcement
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10.03.1995 - 17:58 UT
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Orbital period
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126.5 years
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Orbit
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Aphelion
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31.347 AU
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Perihelion
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18.915 AU
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Semimajor axis
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25.131 AU
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Magnitude
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8.0
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Diameter
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65 - 150 km |
 Photo: Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting in Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet (1968). Getty Images. |
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Mythology
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Hylonome is one of the few female centaurs in mythology. She was a beautiful and civilized centauress, who was in love with a young centaur named Cyllarus. He was wounded by a spear in the battle and died in the arms of his beloved. In her despair Hylonome killed herself by throwing herself onto the same spear that had pierced her partner.
Story of Hylonome and Cyllarus on Zane Stein's site Chiron and Friends |
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