Editing 29 Amphitrite (section)

== Discovery ==
Amphitrite was discovered by [[Albert Marth]] on 1 March 1854, at the private [[Regent's Park#The villas|South Villa Observatory]], in [[Regent's Park]], [[London]]. It was Marth's only asteroid discovery. Its name was chosen by George Bishop, the owner of the observatory, who named it after [[Amphitrite]], a sea goddess in [[Greek mythology]].<ref name="springer" /> Its historical symbol was a shell and star; it is in the pipeline for [[Unicode]] 17.0 as U+1CECF 𜻏 ([[File:Amphitrite symbol (fixed width).svg|12px]]).<ref name=astunicode>{{cite web |url=https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2023/23207-historical-asteroids.pdf |title=Unicode request for historical asteroid symbols |last1=Bala |first1=Gavin Jared |last2=Miller |first2=Kirk |date=18 September 2023 |website=unicode.org |publisher=Unicode |access-date=26 September 2023 |quote=}}</ref><ref name=pipeline>{{cite web |url=https://unicode.org/alloc/Pipeline.html |title=Proposed New Characters: The Pipeline |author=Unicode |date= |website=unicode.org |publisher=The Unicode Consortium |access-date=6 November 2023 |quote=}}</ref>