“Earth, the ever-sure foundation of all the deathless ones who hold the peaks of snowy Olympus, and dim Tartarus in the depth of the wide-pathed Earth, and Eros, fairest among the deathless gods, who unnerves the limbs and overcomes the mind and wise counsels of all gods and all men within them.”
Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹
A long, elegant gold hairpin adorned with #Aphrodite and her son #Eros. Eros offers support to his mum who appears to adorn herself, adjusting one of her anklets to complement the snake-shaped arm bracelets she already wears.
🏛️ Gold Aphrodite Hairpin, 1st century BCE, Greece
It's #FannyFriday, the day I invite everyone to post #vulva art along with me.
Here, #Eros is helping two women remove their pubic hair to be extra sexy. Yes, this goes back to antiquity. Eros and the woman behind him are using an oil lamp to burn off the hair. The bristly pubes growing back earned the vulva the nickname "piggy" in acient Greek.
You like #geography, right? You will love this story of the #EROS program. I was floored at how early they were allowing internet download of data, for instance. This is awesome.
Watch "#USGS EROS: Celebrating 50 Years of Excellence" on YouTube
Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹
You have heard of Princess Leia in the golden bikini. Now get ready for #VENUS in a golden bikini! Homegirl is putting on her golden sandals, aided by her son #Eros. She is using a statue of #Priapus with a gilded erection to lean on.
#Eros adjusts the kottabos stand, a popular game at #ancientGreek symosia. #Dionysos reclines on a couch, his lower body richly draped, holding a thyrsos in his left hand and a wine cup in his right.
🏛️ Red-figure vase painting on a bell krater, dated 395–375 BCE.
Today, June 30, is Asteroid Day, a UN designated day to build public awareness of the risks of asteroid impacts.
June 30 is the day of the largest asteroid impact in recorded history - the Siberia Tunguska event in 1908.
Asteroid Day was co-founded by astrophysicist and famed musician Brian May, Apollo 9 astronaut Rusty Schweickart, filmmaker Grig Richters, and B612 Foundation President Danica Remy.
By comparison, 433 Eros, the 2nd-largest near-Earth object, has a rather ominous appearance.
Size: 34.4 × 11.2 × 11.2 km
Mean diam: 16.84 km
Mass: 6.7E15 kg
Eros crosses the orbit of Mars, but not of earth. Calculations suggest that Eros may evolve into an Earth-crosser within as short an interval as 2 million years, and has a roughly 50% chance of doing so over 100-1000 million years.
The largest NEO is 1036 Ganymed at 35 km diameter.
Feature articles on gravitational microlensing by dark objects by two collaborations: MACHO and EROS + News & Views paper "In search of the halo grail" by Craig J. Hogan