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2101 Adonis2101 Adonis was one of the first near-Earth asteroids to be discovered. It was discovered by Eugene Delporte in 1936 and named after Adonis, the beautiful youth with whom the goddess Venus fell in love. Adonis is believed to measure approximately 1 km in diametre. Adonis makes an appearance in On a march sur la Lune (Explorers on the Moon), one of the Tintin comic albums. As Tintin and his friends are en route to the moon, Adonis unexpectedly comes perilously close to the spacecraft. During a spacewalk, Captain Haddock inadvertently goes into orbit around the asteroid and has to be rescued.
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