48 Doris vs 156 Xanthippe

48 Doris is a carbonaceous, C-type asteroid in the outer part of the main asteroid belt. Hermann Goldschmidt discovered it in Paris on 19 September 1857, and the object was named for Doris, a sea goddess in Greek mythology. It completes one rotation in about 11.9 hours and has a diameter estimated at roughly 220 kilometers, although physical values depend on the observation set and model used. It...

156 Xanthippe is a main-belt asteroid discovered in 1875 by the Austrian astronomer Johann Palisa. It was named after Xanthippe, traditionally known as the wife of the ancient Athenian philosopher Socrates. The name comes from classical history and biography rather than from a physical feature of the asteroid. Its orbit places it among the numerous minor planets that travel around the Sun in the r...