2101 ADONIS

'2101 Adonis' was one of the first near-Earth asteroids to be discovered. It was discovered by Eugene Delporte in 1936 and named after Adonis, the beautiful youth with whom the goddess Venus fell in love. Adonis is believed to measure approximately 1 km in diameter.
In the close approach that led to its initial discovery, not enough observations could be made to calculate an orbit, and Adonis was lost until 1977 when it was rediscovered by Charles T. Kowal.
Adonis was the second Apollo asteroid to be discovered (after 1862 Apollo itself).
It comes within 30 Gm of the Earth six times in the 21st century, the nearest being 5.3 Gm in 2036.

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Adonis in fiction

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Adonis in fiction

: ''See Asteroids in fiction.''
In the 1954 The Adventures of Tintin comic book Explorers on the Moon, a drunken Capt. Haddock almost becomes a satellite of the asteroid.

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★ Long-lost planet 1936 CA ("Adonis") recovered