212 Medea [SEP] discoverer or inventor
212 Medea
Medea (minor planet designation: 212 Medea) is a very large main-belt asteroid that was discovered by Johann Palisa on February 6, 1880, in Pola, and was named after Medea, a figure in Greek mythology.
Photometric observations of this asteroid in 1987 gave an incomplete lightcurve with a period of 10.12 ± 0.06 hours and a brightness variation of 0.13 in magnitude. This object has a spectrum that matches a DCX: classification. Lightcurve data has also been recorded by observers at the Antelope Hill
statue (2007), a statue of Medea in Batumi, Georgia
- "Medea", an 1870 painting by Anselm Feuerbach
Other uses.
- 212 Medea, an asteroid
- MEDEA Collaborative Media Initiative, new media research centre at Malmö University, Sweden
- Measurements of Earth Data for Environmental Analysis, a project of the United States Intelligence Community
- "Croton" (plant) or "Medea", a plant genus
- Medea gene, the "Drosophila melanogaster" common mediator Smad gene