562 Salome [SEP] discoverer or inventor
562 Salome
Salome (minor planet designation: 562 Salome) is a minor planet orbiting the Sun that was discovered by German astronomer Max Wolf on 3 April 1905 from Heidelberg. It is named after Salome, the daughter of Herodias who is referenced in the New Testament.
This is a member of the dynamic Eos family of asteroids that most likely formed as the result of a collisional breakup of a parent body.
consort of Germany)
- 326 Tamara (Queen Tamar of Georgia)
- 344 Desiderata (Queen Desideria of Sweden and Norway)
- 359 Georgia (King George II of Great Britain)
- 392 Wilhelmina (Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands)
- 525 Adelaide (Queen Adelaide, consort of William IV of the United Kingdom)
- 545 Messalina (Messalina, Roman empress)
- 546 Herodias (Herodias, wife of Herod II and mother of Salome)
- 562 Salome (Salome, daughter