Greek god of love. Though Hesiod declared him one of the primeval gods born of Chaos, he was later said to be the son of Aphrodite. His Roman counterpart was Cupid. Eros was depicted as a beautiful winged youth carrying a bow and a quiver of arrows. In later literature and art he became increasingly younger, ending as an infant. His cult centre was at Thespiae, but he also shared a sanctuary with Aphrodite at Athens. First asteroid found to travel mainly inside the orbit of Mars and the first to be landed on by a spacecraft. Discovered in 1898 and named for the Greek god of love, Eros is an elongated body about 20.5 mi (33 km) in its greatest dimension. It can approach to within 14 million mi (22 million km) of Earth. In 2000 the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR Shoemaker) spacecraft orbited Eros, collecting a full year of data, and in 2001 it set down gently on Eros's surface
Eros, Asteroid #433, is a Near-Earth Asteroid (NEAR) This elongated asteroid is 21 by 8 by 8 miles (33 by 13 by 13 kilometers) The force of gravity on Eros is 1000 times weaker than the gravity on Earth; it has no atmosphere The density of Eros is 2 4 grams per cubic centimeter, roughly the same as the density of Earth's crust The surface of Eros is littered with dust, rocks, boulders and craters Eros varies from about 1 14 AU to 1 78AU from the Sun (it orbits the Sun in a slightly more elliptical orbit than the Earth and is a bit farther from the Sun than the Earth)
Love; the god of love; by earlier writers represented as one of the first and creative gods, by later writers as the son of Aphrodite, equivalent to the Latin god Cupid
Eros is love Originally Eros was considered to have been one of the great forces spawned from the primordial chaos In this role Eros causes the fury of procreation that brings into being the world as we recognize it In later myths Eros has been reduced to a pleasant but, minor god By Roman times Eros had become Cupid