(93) Minerva

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(93 ) Minerva is an asteroid of the main belt, which was to Minerva, a goddess of the moon in Roman mythology, named.

Satellite system

On 16 August 2009, two companion of Minerva by a team led by Franck Marchis were discovered by means of adaptive optics of the Keck II telescope. Both 3 and 4 km large moons orbiting the Minerva at a distance of 385 or 651 km, received in December 2013, the official name Gorgoneion and Aegis.