182 Elsa vs 186 Celuta

182 Elsa is a numbered asteroid in the main belt, the broad zone of minor planets orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter. Johann Palisa discovered it in 1878, as nineteenth-century observatories were identifying and cataloguing new small bodies. The asteroid's name comes from Elsa of Brabant, the female protagonist of Richard Wagner's opera Lohengrin, so its designation connects a planetary obj...

186 Celuta is a main-belt asteroid discovered by Henri Perrotin in 1878. Its name refers to Céluta, a Native American character in François-René de Chateaubriand’s novel Les Natchez. The object is one of the many numbered minor planets orbiting the Sun in the region between Mars and Jupiter. Asteroid classifications based on observed physical properties place Celuta among the S-type group, which i...