579 Sidonia [SEP] discoverer or inventor
579 Sidonia
Sidonia (minor planet designation: 579 Sidonia) is a minor planet orbiting the Sun that was discovered by the German astronomer August Kopff on November 3, 1905. It was named after a character in Christoph Willibald Gluck's opera "Armide".
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.
Sidonia (disambiguation)
Sidonia is a feminine given name. It may also refer to:
- 579 Sidonia, an asteroid
- USS "Sidonia" (AKA-42), a U.S. Navy attack cargo ship
- Order of Sidonia, a chivalric order for women instituted by the Kingdom of Saxony
- Sidonie (Brumov-Bylnice), a district of Brumov-Bylnice, Czech Republic
- Sidonia, Tennessee, Weakley County, Tennessee
- "Fromont and Risler", also titled "Sidonie",