692 Hippodamia
Also known as (692) Hippodamia, Hippodamia, (692) 1901 HD
outer main-belt asteroid
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Jupiter and Venus from Earth
2026-06-07
It was visible around the world. The sunset conjunction of Jupiter (left) and Venus (right) in 2012 was visible almost no matter where you lived on Earth. Anyone on our planet with a clear western horizon at sunset could see them. That year, a creative photographer traveled away from the town lights of Szubin, Poland to photograph a near closest approach of the two planets. The bright planets were then separated by only three degrees and his daughter struck a humorous pose. A faint red sunset still glowed in the background. Jupiter and Venus are together again this week after sunset, passing within a degree of each other about two days from today.
© Marek Nikodem (PPSAE) · via NASA APOD
Key facts
- Discovered by
- M. Wolf and A. Kopff
- Discovery site
- Heidelberg Observatory
- Discovery date
- 5 November 1901
- Pronunciation
- / ˌ h ɪ p ə d ə ˈ m aɪ ə /
- Named after
- Hippodamia , ( Greek mythology )
- Alternative designations
- 1901 HD · 1941 HK
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692 Hippodamia, provisional designation 1901 HD, is a stony asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, about 45 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 5 November 1901, by the German astronomers Max Wolf and August Kopff at Heidelberg Observatory in southern Germany. Nine years later, the body was rediscovered by August Kopff at its apparition in 1910.
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