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Discovered 1980 Aug. 6 by H.-E. Schuster at the European Southern Observatory.
Named for the goddess and personification of the night. She was a daughter of Chaos and had many children by her brother Erebus, who personifies the subterranean darkness. The realm of Nyx was in the far West, beyond the land of Atlas.
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