(46722) Ireneadler

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( 46722 ) Irene Adler is an asteroid of the outer main belt, the September 2, 1997 by the Czech astronomer Petr Pravec and Lenka Kotková (then under her birth name Lenka Šarounová ) at the observatory Ondřejov (IAU code 557 ) was discovered in Ondřejov near Prague been.

Mean distance from the sun ( semimajor axis), eccentricity and inclination of the orbital plane of the asteroid roughly correspond to the Eos family, a group of asteroids, which typically have semi-major axes from 2.95 to 3.1 AE, bounded on the inside of the Kirkwood gap of 7: 3 resonance with Jupiter, and orbital inclinations between 8 ° and 12 °. The group is named after the asteroid (221 ​​) Eos. It is believed that the family was created over one billion years ago by a collision.

( 46722 ) Irene Adler was named on 7 June 2009, after Irene Adler, a character in the Sherlock Holmes story A Scandal in Bohemia ( A Scandal in Bohemia ). For Sherlock Holmes, Irene Adler was the only admirable woman. After Sherlock Holmes, the asteroid of the inner main belt ( 5049 ) Sherlock is named.