Iris, discovery and characteristics

I R I S

Iris is a small asteroid whose excentricity is 0.2300, very grown. by the way, its type is asteroidal kind. The discovery of Iris was made close to perihelion about the Sun & in the opposition about Earth. Its magnitude was 8.7. Its orbital period is 3.69 years & its inclination about ecliptic plane is 5.52º.

During 2000 year, Iris will be at Cancer constellation, its localisation was not easy because the field is very rich one of stars, & faint asteroid too.

The observation to find Iris were made during the next nights; February, 24^th, 25^th & 27^th of 2000 with my telescope, refractor of 1400mm. of phocal distance & 90mm. of diameter. In the end, at 21h. 20m. (UT) of February 27^th, I find Iris asteroid into the rich field of stars, this is, by the way, the discovery date.

By the other hand, with a Java program that I found on the net, & thanks to Osamu Ajiki of AstroArts&y Ron Baalke of JPL, you can see the asteroid orbit, distance in relationship to Sun 6 Earth at Solar

At classical mythology Iris or Iris, is the personification of the rainbow. Mythology people doing of her a goddess Electra & Taumante's daughter, by the way Harpias' daughter. Because the rainbow unite the Earth with the Sky, by the way she was a messenger with Hermes. She can find at many legends always she send messages to the gods. Sometimes she was Eros's mother that she would have with the wind Cephiro. Generally we can see her with a great tunic floating at air, wings on the back.