(1221) Amor, love at first sight

(1221) Amor is an amor asteroid discovered in March of 1932. It has a perihelion of 1.08 AU and an aphelion of 2.75 AU. The semimajor axis is at 1.91 AU. It has an orbital period of 2 years and 241 days. It has an inclination of 11.8º.


Roman mythology

Amor is the Latin name for Eros, the god of sexual attraction and passionate love in Greek mythology, equivalent to Cupid in Roman mythology.

(1221) Amor is related with the emotional and physiological effect that causes the physical presence and closeness of another person.

The discovery of (1221) Amor, at the beginning of the thirties, it has been a source of a lot of symbolic images, for example the movie "King Kong" (1933) or the comic "Superman" (1932) ('It is an aeroplane... a bird... it`s Superman!'); in cartoons, when a woman appears and the heart starts in and out of the chest with the heart beats (love at first sight); or in the old movies, where ladies dance in the stage showing the legs and later come to the tables to talk with people.

Another image of the asteroid (1221) Amor is the happiness of children, when parents come back to home after work (dogs are even more emotive). In general, (1221) Amor represents the feeling of well-beings that appears when the loved person is close.