145 Adeona is a rather large main-belt

Asteroid belt

The asteroid belt is the region of the Solar System located roughly between the orbits of the planets Mars and Jupiter. It is occupied by numerous irregularly shaped bodies called asteroids or minor planets...

 asteroid

Asteroid

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. Its surface is very dark, and probably composed of primitive carbonaceous

Carbonaceous

Carbonaceous is the defining attribute of a substance rich in carbon. Particularly, carbonaceous hydrocarbons are very unsaturated, high-molecular-weight hydrocarbons, having an elevated carbon:hydrogen ratio....

 material. The Adeona family

Adeona family

The Adeona family is an asteroid family that formed from the parent body 145 Adeona. There are an estimated 1,000 Adeonian asteroids....

 of asteroids is named after it.

It was discovered by C. H. F. Peters

Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters

Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters was a German-American astronomer, and one of the first to discover asteroids....

 on June 3, 1875, from the observatory at Hamilton College, Clinton, New York

Clinton, Oneida County, New York

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. Peters named it after Adeona, the Roman

Roman mythology

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 goddess of homecoming

Homecoming

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, because he had recently returned from a journey across the world to observe the transit of Venus

Transit of Venus

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. Peters also discovered 144 Vibilia

144 Vibilia

144 Vibilia is a large, dark main belt asteroid. It probably has a primitive carbonaceous composition. It is the only large member of the Vibilia asteroid family....

 on the same night.

Adeona has been observed to occult

Occultation

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 a star

Star

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once, on July 9, 2002.