176 Iduna [SEP] discoverer or inventor
176 Iduna
Iduna (minor planet designation: 176 Iduna) is a large main-belt asteroid that was discovered by German-American astronomer Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters on October 14, 1877, in Clinton, New York. It is named after Sällskapet Idun, a club in Stockholm that hosted an astronomical conference; Idun is also a Norse goddess. A G-type asteroid, it has a composition similar to that of the largest main-belt asteroid, 1 Ceres.
An occultation of a star by Iduna was
Iduna
Iduna can mean several things:
- One of several modern anglicizations of the name of the Norse goddess Iðunn
- 176 Iduna, an asteroid named after the goddess
- "Iduna" (bird), a genus of tree warblers
- Iduna (literature society)
- Iduna, Wisconsin, United States
- Iduna language, spoken in Papua New Guinea
- The journal of the Swedish Geatish Society
- Queen Iduna, a character in the musical "Frozen"