93 Minerva
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93 Minerva is a large triple main-belt asteroid. It is a C-type asteroid, meaning that it has a dark surface and possibly a primitive carbonaceous composition. It was discovered by J. C. Watson on 24 August 1867, and named after Minerva, the Roman equivalent of Athena, goddess of wisdom. An occultation of a star by Minerva was observed in France, Spain and the United States on 22 November 1982. An occultation diameter of ~170 km was measured from the observations. Since then two more occultations have been observed, which give an estimated mean diameter of ~150 km.<ref>Template:Citation</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
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On 16 August 2009, at 13:36 UT, the Keck Observatory's adaptive optics system revealed that the asteroid 93 Minerva possesses 2 small moons.<ref name="Marchis2009">Template:Cite web</ref> They are 4 and 3 km in diameter and the projected separations from Minerva correspond to 630 km (8.8 x Rprimary) and 380 km (5.2 x Rprimary) respectively.<ref name="Marchis2009"/> They have been named Aegis<ref name="Marchis2009b">Template:Cite web</ref> (Template:IPAc-en)<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref> and Gorgoneion<ref name="Marchis2009b" /> (Template:IPAc-en).<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
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