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2026-08-20 13:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-08-13)

WHERE IS HERA?
- Barycentric speed: 23.92 km/s (+0.53 km/s)
- Rendezvous with Didymos: November 2026

🪨 Relative to Didymos
- Distance (km): 1,437,586.33 km (-194,908.11 km)
- Distance (AU): 0.01 (-0.00)
- Light travel time: 0 min 4.80 s (-0.65 s)

🌎 Relative to Earth
- Distance (km): 171,569,810.89 km (+5,099,037.76 km)
- Distance (AU): 1.15 (+0.03)
- Light travel time: 9 min 32.30 s (+17.01 s)

#Hera #Didymos

Hephaestus

Author’s Note: This post has mentions of (g)rape. If this is triggering, please go on to 1 of our other posts.

He’s the Greek god of artisans, blacksmiths, carpenters, craftsmen, fire, metallurgy, metalworking, sculpture, & volcanoes.

In Greek mythology, Hephaestus was the son of Hera, either on her own or her husband/brother, Zeus. He was cast off Mount Olympus by his mom, Hera, because of his lameness, the result of a congenital impairment. Or, in another account, by Zeus for protecting Hera from his advances.

As a smithing god, Hephaestus created all the weapons of the gods on Olympus. He served as the blacksmith of the gods & was worshipped in the manufacturing & industrial centers of Greece, particularly Athens. The cult of Hephaestus was based in Lemnos. Hephaestus’ symbols are a smith’s hammer, anvil, & a pair of tongs. In Rome, he was equated with Vulcan.

In Hesiod’s Theogony, Hera gives birth to Hephaestus on her own, out of revenge for Zeus having, without her, fathered Athena (the daughter of Zeus & Metis). Apollodorus similarly states that Hera gives birth to Hephaestus alone. Though according to Homer, Hephaestus is 1 of the kids of Zeus & Hera.

Some sources state that the origin myth of Hephaestus was that of a “daemon of fire coming up from the Earth,” that he was also associated with gas “which takes fire & burns & is considered by many people to be divine” & that only later was a volcano considered Hephaestus’ smithy.

He was associated by Greek colonists in southern Italy with the volcano gods Adranus (of Mount Etna) & Vulcanus of the Lipari islands.

The 1st-century sage, Apollonius of Tyana, is said to have observed, “there are many other mountains all over the earth that are on fire, & yet we should never be done with it if we assigned to them giants & gods like Hephaestus.” Nevertheless, Hephaestus’ domain over fire goes back to Homer’s Iliad, where he uses flames to dry the waters of the Scamander River in order to force its eponymous deity, who was attacking Achilles, to retreat.

His favorite place in our mere mortal world was the island of Lemnos. He liked to live among the Sintians. But he also repeatedly went to other volcanic islands like Lipari, Imbros, & Sicily, which were called his abodes/workshops. In 1 version of events, Hera rejects, then ejects Hephaestus from Olympus/the heavens because of his congenital impairment. (It’s implied that his congenital disability is because of Zeus & Hera’s familial relationship, i.e. brother & sister.)

Because of Hera’s actions, he fell into the ocean & of Hera’s actions, he fell into the ocean & was raised by Thetis (Achilles’ mom & 1 of the 50 Nereids) & Eurynome, the Oceanid. In another version, Hephaestus, attempting to rescue his mom from Zeus’ advances, was cast down to earth by Zeus, not Hera!

He (Hephaestus) was cast down for 1 whole day & landed on the island of Lemnos. On Lemnos, he was cared for & taught to be a master craftsman by the Sintians. Later writers describe his physical disability as a result of his 2nd fall. While Homer makes him disabled from birth.

Hephaestus was 1 of the Olympians who came back to Olympus after being exiled. In an archaic story, Hephaestus wanted revenge against Hera for rejecting him by forging her a magical golden throne, which, when she sat on it, didn’t let her stand up again.

The other gods begged Hephaestus to return to Olympus to let her go. But he refused, saying, “I’ve no mom.” It was Ares who undertook the task of fetching Hephaestus at 1st. But he was threatened by the fire god with torches. At last, Dionysus (the wine god) fetched him, got him drunk on wine, & took the subdued smith back to Olympus on the back of a mule, accompanied by revelers.

According to Hyginus, Zeus promised anything to Hephaestus to free Hera. Hephaestus asked for Athena’s hand in marriage (urged by Poseidon, who was hostile toward Athena), leading to his attempted (g)raping of the goddess, who rejected his advances.

In another version, he demanded to be married to Aphrodite to release Hera, & his mom fulfilled the request. Hephaestus had his own palace on Olympus, containing his workshop with an anvil(s) & 20 bellows that worked at his bidding.

He crafted much of the magnificent equipment of the gods, & almost any finely wrought metalwork imbued with powers that appears in Greek myth is said to have been forged by Hephaestus. He designed all the thrones in the Olympian palace, the Aegis breastplate, Hermes’ (not the fashion house) winged helmet & sandals, Aphrodite’s famous girdle, Eros’ bow & arrows, Helios’ chariot, Heracles’ bronze clappers, & the shoulder of Pelops.

Hephaestus also created the gift that the gods gave to mankind: the 1st woman, Pandora, & her pithos (a large jar)/box. In some versions, Prometheus stole the fire that he gave to man from Hephaestus’ forge. Hephaestus gave to the blinded Orion his apprentice Cedalion as a guide. In later accounts, Hephaestus worked with the Cyclopes Brontes, Steropes, & Arges, who were highly skilled blacksmiths in their own right & forged Zeus’ thunderbolts, Poseidon’s trident, & Hades’ helmet of darkness/invisibility.

According to Homer, Hephaestus built automatons of metal to work for him or others. This includes tripods with golden wheels, able to move at his wish in & out of the assembly hall of the celestials; & “handmaidens wrought of gold in the semblance of living maids,” who had “understanding in their hearts, & speech & strength,” as a gift of the gods.

They moved to support Hephaestus while walking. Hephaestus also put golden & silver lions & dogs at the entrance of the palace of Alkinoos in such a way that they could bite the invaders. These guard dogs didn’t age or perish. (So does this mean that they could possibly still be around, hidden somewhere? Like the Nag Hammadi library.)

A similar golden dog was set by Rhea to guard the infant Zeus & his nurse (the goat Amaltheia) on the island of Krete/Crete. Later, Tantalus was said to have stolen the automaton when it guarded Zeus’ temple, or to have persuaded Pandareos to steal it for him.

Later texts attempt to replace the automaton with the idea that the golden dog was actually Rhea, transformed by Hephaestus. Hephaestus fought against the giants & killed Mimas by throwing molten iron at him. He also fought another giant, Aristaeus, but he fled.

During the battle, Hephaestus fell down exhausted & was picked up by Helios in his chariot. As a gift of gratitude, Hephaestus forged 4 ever-flowing fountains & fire-breathing bulls for Helios’ son Aeetus. At the marriage of Peleus & Thetis, Hephaestus gave a knife as a wedding present.

When the Trojan War began, Hephaestus sided with the Greeks & forged the armor of Achilles, the cuirass of Diomedes, & Agamemnon’s staff of office. But Hephaestus was also worshipped by the Trojans & saved 1 of their men from being killed by Diomedes.

Though she was married to Hephaestus, Aphrodite had an affair with Ares, the god of war. Eventually, Hephaestus discovered Aphrodite’s affair through Helios, the all-seeing sun (We’re gonna circle back to this. Keep this in mind.), & planned a trap during 1 of their trysts.

While the lovers lay together in bed, Hephaestus ensnared them in an unbreakable chain-link net so small as to be invisible & dragged them to Mount Olympus to shame them in front of the other gods for retribution. The gods had a good laugh at the sight of these unclothed adulterers. Poseidon persuaded Hephaestus to free them in return for a guarantee that Ares would pay the adulterers’ fine, or Poseidon would pay it himself.

In The Odyssey, Hephaestus says he would give Aphrodite back to Zeus & demand back his bride price. Some versions of the myth state that Zeus didn’t return the dowry. In fact, Aphrodite “simply charmed her way back again into her husband’s good graces.”

In The Iliad, Hephaestus is described as being married to the Grace named Charis during the events depicted in the Trojan War. While in Theogeny, he’s married to the Grace named Aglaea, with no indication of having ever been married to Aphrodite.

In Dionysiaca by Nonnus explicitly stated that, though Hephaestus & Aphrodite were once married (she’s referred to as his “ancient wife”). They’ve since separated & Hephaestus is now married to Charis.

Here’s the keep-in-mind part: In a later detail, Ares put the young soldier, Alectryon, by their door to warn them of Helios’ arrival, as he suspected that Helios would tell Hephaestus of Aphrodite’s infidelity if the 2 were discovered. But Alectryon fell asleep on guard duty. Helios finds the 2 & alerts Hephaestus. Ares, in a rage, turned Alectryon into a rooster, which always crows at dawn when the sun is about to rise.

The Thebans said that the spicy time union of Ares & Aphrodite produced Harmonia. But that of the union of Hephaestus with Aphrodite, there’s usually no issue. Because Harmonia was conceived during Aphrodite’s marriage to Hephaestus, for revenge, on Harmonia’s wedding day to Cadmus, Hephaestus gifted her with a finely worked but cursed necklace that brought immense suffering to her descendants, culminating in Oedipus. (Check out our post on Oedipus.)

An Athenian founding myth tells the city’s patron goddess, Athena, refused a union (spicy time) with Hephaestus. Pseudo-Apollodorus records an archaic legend, which claims that Hephaestus once tried to (g)rape Athena. But she pushed him away, causing him to ejaculate on her thigh.

Athena wiped the happy time juice off using a tuft of wool. She tossed it into the dust. This impregnated Gaia (his own great-grandma). This caused her to give birth to King Erichthonius, whom Athena adopted as her own kid.

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(an aside, #Hera and #Athena have a good and seeming loving relationship. Hera rejoices at Athena's birth as if Athena were her own child. Athena is notoriously loyal to Zeus but she does choose Hera when Zeus and Hera are in conflict sometimes. Physical affection is shown between them too 💞. Athena will protect her siblings from Hera (and Zeus for that matter), however. She's good big sis, in fact. Like she's stepped in for #Ares, even. And they fight each other.)

getting into #GreekMythology again and especially with my fave #Athena / #Athene.

she's much more powerful than modern media gives her credit for, i think. and she has many domains that don't get emphasized like crafts and invention. her androgynous nature is really cool. like Athena is known for weaving and sewing. she makes and wears beautiful gowns and robes. in the #Iliad she makes her stepmother, #Hera , a stunning gown (to seduce Zeus bc Hera and Athena are scheming again, lol).

#UniBE:
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Asteroideneinschlag formte das Aussehen des Marsmonds Deimos
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".. mithilfe hochauflösender Computersimulationen und dem Vergleich mit den neusten Aufnahmen der ESA-Raumsonde Hera gezeigt, dass ein einzelner Asteroideneinschlag den Marsmond Deimos geformt und seine glatte, staubige Oberfläche geschaffen hat. .."

https://mediarelations.unibe.ch/medienmitteilungen/2026/medienmitteilungen_2026/einschlag_deimos/index_ger.html

18.8.2026

#Asteroid #Bern #Deimos #Einschlag #ESA #Hera #Marsmond #Raumfahrt #Raumsonde #Regolith #Schweiz #Simulation #Spaceflight #Supercomputing

2026-08-13 13:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-08-06)

WHERE IS HERA?
- Barycentric speed: 23.40 km/s (+0.51 km/s)
- Rendezvous with Didymos: November 2026

🪨 Relative to Didymos
- Distance (km): 1,632,494.44 km (-203,119.62 km)
- Distance (AU): 0.01 (-0.00)
- Light travel time: 0 min 5.45 s (-0.68 s)

🌎 Relative to Earth
- Distance (km): 166,470,773.14 km (+5,206,885.72 km)
- Distance (AU): 1.11 (+0.03)
- Light travel time: 9 min 15.29 s (+17.37 s)

#Hera #Didymos

Komplimente im Wandel der Zeiten...:
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"die rinderäugige #Hera"
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#Ilias #Homer

2026-08-06 13:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-07-30)

WHERE IS HERA?
- Barycentric speed: 22.89 km/s (+0.48 km/s)
- Rendezvous with Didymos: November 2026

🪨 Relative to Didymos
- Distance (km): 1,835,614.06 km (-212,585.89 km)
- Distance (AU): 0.01 (-0.00)
- Light travel time: 0 min 6.12 s (-0.71 s)

🌎 Relative to Earth
- Distance (km): 161,263,887.41 km (+5,136,709.04 km)
- Distance (AU): 1.08 (+0.03)
- Light travel time: 8 min 57.93 s (+17.13 s)

#Hera #Didymos

2026-07-30 13:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-07-23)

WHERE IS HERA?
- Barycentric speed: 22.41 km/s (+0.46 km/s)
- Rendezvous with Didymos: November 2026

🪨 Relative to Didymos
- Distance (km): 2,048,205.65 km (-223,148.89 km)
- Distance (AU): 0.01 (-0.00)
- Light travel time: 0 min 6.83 s (-0.74 s)

🌎 Relative to Earth
- Distance (km): 156,127,190.30 km (+4,877,238.23 km)
- Distance (AU): 1.04 (+0.03)
- Light travel time: 8 min 40.80 s (+16.27 s)

#Hera #Didymos

2026-07-23 13:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-07-16)

WHERE IS HERA?
- Barycentric speed: 21.94 km/s (+0.44 km/s)
- Rendezvous with Didymos: November 2026

🪨 Relative to Didymos
- Distance (km): 2,271,354.54 km (-234,693.52 km)
- Distance (AU): 0.02 (-0.00)
- Light travel time: 0 min 7.58 s (-0.78 s)

🌎 Relative to Earth
- Distance (km): 151,249,952.07 km (+4,391,718.48 km)
- Distance (AU): 1.01 (+0.03)
- Light travel time: 8 min 24.53 s (+14.65 s)

#Hera #Didymos

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🚀💥 #China’s planetary defense mission would crash a #spacecraft into an asteroid at 32,000 km/h before 2030.

The campaign combines impact and post collision analysis, unlike #NASA’s #DART and #ESA’s #Hera which split those tasks. #CNSA chief scientist Li Mingtao is also studying #telescopes to detect #asteroids hidden by the #Sun’s glare.

👉 https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/china-asteroid-deflection-mission-2030/

#planets #space #science #astronomy #technology #tech #earth #safety

2026-07-16 13:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-07-09)

WHERE IS HERA?
- Barycentric speed: 21.50 km/s (+0.42 km/s)
- Rendezvous with Didymos: November 2026

🪨 Relative to Didymos
- Distance (km): 2,506,048.06 km (-247,099.50 km)
- Distance (AU): 0.02 (-0.00)
- Light travel time: 0 min 8.36 s (-0.82 s)

🌎 Relative to Earth
- Distance (km): 146,858,233.59 km (+3,633,029.26 km)
- Distance (AU): 0.98 (+0.02)
- Light travel time: 8 min 9.88 s (+12.12 s)

#Hera #Didymos

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🚀💻 The #ESA’s #Hera mission successfully rebooted its #spacecraft 140 million km from #Earth after uploading new flight #software.

Engineers at #OHB in #Bremen spent 18 months testing the upgrade on a replica before sending commands to the real spacecraft. Hera is now bound for #Dimorphos, the #asteroid whose orbit was altered by #NASA’s #DART mission.

👉 https://www.universetoday.com/articles/rebooting-a-spacecraft-140-million-kilometres-from-home

#space #didymos #engineering #science

2026-07-09 13:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-07-02)

WHERE IS HERA?
- Barycentric speed: 21.08 km/s (+0.41 km/s)
- Rendezvous with Didymos: November 2026

🪨 Relative to Didymos
- Distance (km): 2,753,147.57 km (-260,249.88 km)
- Distance (AU): 0.02 (-0.00)
- Light travel time: 0 min 9.18 s (-0.87 s)

🌎 Relative to Earth
- Distance (km): 143,225,204.33 km (+2,587,642.54 km)
- Distance (AU): 0.96 (+0.02)
- Light travel time: 7 min 57.76 s (+8.63 s)

#Hera #Didymos

🛰️☄️ L'équipe des opérations de la mission #Hera de l'ESA a effectué avec succès une mise à jour du logiciel de bord de la sonde, alors qu'elle se trouve à 140 millions de km de la Terre. Les communications prennent environ 8 minutes. Près de 50 jours de tests au sol ont été nécessaires pour cette opération critique car une fois le nouveau logiciel chargé, il faut redémarrer 2 fois la sonde pour évaluer les systèmes nominaux et redondants. Pas de droit à l'erreur !

Es geht um die Präsentation der Raumfahrt auf der ILA, die neuesten Entwicklungen zur #Artemis III-Mission mit #ESA-Astronaut Luca Parmitano und um die Mission von ESA-Reserveastronaut Aleš Svoboda. Außerdem gibt es Informationen zur Nachfolgemission zur Erdbeobachtungsmission #Sentinel-1, zu den Missionen Hera und Proba-3 und zur historischen Aufarbeitung der Geschichte der DLR-Vorgängerorganisationen.

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#ARTEMIS3 #Sentinel1 #Hera #Proba3

2026-07-02 13:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-06-25)

WHERE IS HERA?
- Barycentric speed: 20.67 km/s (+0.39 km/s)
- Rendezvous with Didymos: November 2026

🪨 Relative to Didymos
- Distance (km): 3,013,397.44 km (-274,034.93 km)
- Distance (AU): 0.02 (-0.00)
- Light travel time: 0 min 10.05 s (-0.91 s)

🌎 Relative to Earth
- Distance (km): 140,637,561.79 km (+1,278,541.00 km)
- Distance (AU): 0.94 (+0.01)
- Light travel time: 7 min 49.13 s (+4.26 s)

#Hera #Didymos

Hoy que es #MissVaca, os recuerdo que si alguna vez os comparan con una #vaca, que sepáis que #Hathor, diosa egipcia del amor y la belleza, era una vaca. La vaca, además, era el animal sagrado de #Hera, reina del cielo y del Olimpo, protectora del matrimonio y la maternidad y una de las diosas más veneradas en la Antigüedad.

#mitologíagriega #mitologiaegipcia

2026-06-25 13:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-06-18)

WHERE IS HERA?
- Barycentric speed: 20.28 km/s (+0.37 km/s)
- Rendezvous with Didymos: November 2026

🪨 Relative to Didymos
- Distance (km): 3,287,432.38 km (-288,355.02 km)
- Distance (AU): 0.02 (-0.00)
- Light travel time: 0 min 10.97 s (-0.96 s)

🌎 Relative to Earth
- Distance (km): 139,359,020.79 km (-274,397.03 km)
- Distance (AU): 0.93 (-0.00)
- Light travel time: 7 min 44.87 s (-0.92 s)

#Hera #Didymos

2026-06-18 13:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-06-11)

WHERE IS HERA?
- Barycentric speed: 19.91 km/s (+0.35 km/s)
- Rendezvous with Didymos: November 2026

🪨 Relative to Didymos
- Distance (km): 3,575,787.39 km (-303,121.98 km)
- Distance (AU): 0.02 (-0.00)
- Light travel time: 0 min 11.93 s (-1.01 s)

🌎 Relative to Earth
- Distance (km): 139,633,417.82 km (-2,031,230.31 km)
- Distance (AU): 0.93 (-0.01)
- Light travel time: 7 min 45.78 s (-6.78 s)

#Hera #Didymos

¡Feliz #ViernesDeMitologíaGriega ! En este mes del #OrgulloLGTB, es menester que haga honor a aquellos mitos y figuras #LGTB que tenemos en la #mitologíagriega y que no son pocas.

De hecho, ya hemos hablado de que #Zeus y #Poseidón tenían amantes masculinos, aunque por algún motivo esto pasa muy de tapadillo en recopilatorios modernos.

A mí en clase no me lo enseñaron, para que os hagáis una idea.

Hoy os voy a hablar de un dios que es todo un #iconoLGTB y con el que podéis pegarle en la cabeza a las terfas: #Dioniso, dios del vino, vegetación, jolgorio (sí, hay dios de eso) y locura.

En cultos paganos modernos, Dioniso es considerado una deidad trans o de género fluido y, aunque este aspecto es una reinterpretación moderna, tiene su razón de ser.

Los griegos no tenían una palabra para definir "lo trans", pero sí encontramos representaciones de Dioniso que reunían rasgos masculinos y femeninos. Por un lado, tenemos descripciones y representaciones de Dioniso con barba y otras con la carita bien afeitada, con el cabello largo y con ropas femeninas. Uno de sus epítetos, además, era "andrógino".

Tuvo amantes masculinos y femeninos: #Afrodita, la princesa #Ariadna, el sátiro #Ampelos, el pastor #Polimno... Entre otros.

En el nacimiento de Dioniso ya se ve una naturaleza que se pasa por el forro los roles de género.

#Zeus se lió con Sémele, princesa de Tebas y, para sorpresa de nadie, se embarazó. Se dice que unos viñedos crecieron alrededor de la cama donde hicieron sus cositas y el dios, que estaba muy pillado, le prometió que honraría cualquier deseo de ella.

También, para sorpresa de nadie, Hera intervino (el rol de #Hera lo explico en otro Viernes de Mitología Griega) y la engañó. Se disfrazó de anciana y la convenció de que debía invocar a Zeus y pedirle que se apareciera con el mismo esplendor con el que acudió a su propia boda con Hera. Zeus así hizo, rodeado de truenos que acabaron con la pobre muchacha.
#ViernesDeMitologíaGriega #mitologíagriega

2026-06-11 13:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-06-04)

WHERE IS HERA?
- Barycentric speed: 19.56 km/s (+0.34 km/s)
- Rendezvous with Didymos: November 2026

🪨 Relative to Didymos
- Distance (km): 3,878,909.37 km (-318,259.75 km)
- Distance (AU): 0.03 (-0.00)
- Light travel time: 0 min 12.94 s (-1.06 s)

🌎 Relative to Earth
- Distance (km): 141,664,648.13 km (-3,898,462.36 km)
- Distance (AU): 0.95 (-0.03)
- Light travel time: 7 min 52.56 s (-13.00 s)

#Hera #Didymos

2026-06-04 13:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-05-28)

WHERE IS HERA?
- Barycentric speed: 19.22 km/s (+0.32 km/s)
- Rendezvous with Didymos: November 2026

🪨 Relative to Didymos
- Distance (km): 4,197,169.12 km (-333,704.15 km)
- Distance (AU): 0.03 (-0.00)
- Light travel time: 0 min 14.00 s (-1.11 s)

🌎 Relative to Earth
- Distance (km): 145,563,110.49 km (-5,765,392.45 km)
- Distance (AU): 0.97 (-0.04)
- Light travel time: 8 min 5.56 s (-19.23 s)

#Hera #Didymos

2026-05-28 13:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-05-21)

WHERE IS HERA?
- Barycentric speed: 18.90 km/s (+0.31 km/s)
- Rendezvous with Didymos: November 2026

🪨 Relative to Didymos
- Distance (km): 4,530,865.53 km (-349,403.06 km)
- Distance (AU): 0.03 (-0.00)
- Light travel time: 0 min 15.11 s (-1.17 s)

🌎 Relative to Earth
- Distance (km): 151,328,493.37 km (-7,560,724.31 km)
- Distance (AU): 1.01 (-0.05)
- Light travel time: 8 min 24.79 s (-25.22 s)

#Hera #Didymos

2026-05-21 13:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-05-14)

WHERE IS HERA?
- Barycentric speed: 18.60 km/s (+0.29 km/s)
- Rendezvous with Didymos: November 2026

🪨 Relative to Didymos
- Distance (km): 4,880,268.59 km (-365,311.69 km)
- Distance (AU): 0.03 (-0.00)
- Light travel time: 0 min 16.28 s (-1.22 s)

🌎 Relative to Earth
- Distance (km): 158,889,217.68 km (-9,232,549.41 km)
- Distance (AU): 1.06 (-0.06)
- Light travel time: 8 min 50.01 s (-30.80 s)

#Hera #Didymos

#streetart #berlin #teufelsberg #hera #herakut

2026-05-14 13:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-05-07)

WHERE IS HERA?
- Barycentric speed: 18.31 km/s (+0.28 km/s)
- Rendezvous with Didymos: November 2026

🪨 Relative to Didymos
- Distance (km): 5,245,580.27 km (-381,397.19 km)
- Distance (AU): 0.04 (-0.00)
- Light travel time: 0 min 17.50 s (-1.27 s)

🌎 Relative to Earth
- Distance (km): 168,121,767.08 km (-10,722,191.25 km)
- Distance (AU): 1.12 (-0.07)
- Light travel time: 9 min 20.81 s (-35.77 s)

#Hera #Didymos

2026-05-07 13:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-04-30)

WHERE IS HERA?
- Barycentric speed: 18.03 km/s (+0.26 km/s)
- Rendezvous with Didymos: November 2026

🪨 Relative to Didymos
- Distance (km): 5,626,977.47 km (-397,633.77 km)
- Distance (AU): 0.04 (-0.00)
- Light travel time: 0 min 18.77 s (-1.33 s)

🌎 Relative to Earth
- Distance (km): 178,843,958.33 km (-11,998,943.42 km)
- Distance (AU): 1.20 (-0.08)
- Light travel time: 9 min 56.58 s (-40.03 s)

#Hera #Didymos