Editing 7 Iris (section)

==Discovery and name==
Iris was discovered on 13 August 1847, by [[John Russell Hind|J. R. Hind]] from [[London]], [[United Kingdom|UK]]. It was Hind's first asteroid discovery and the seventh asteroid to be discovered overall. It was named after the [[rainbow]] goddess [[Iris (mythology)|Iris]] in [[Greek mythology]], who was a messenger to the gods, especially [[Hera]]. Her quality of attendant of Hera was particularly appropriate to the circumstances of discovery, as Iris was spotted following [[3 Juno]] by less than an hour of [[right ascension]] ([[Juno (mythology)|Juno]] is the [[Roman mythology|Roman]] equivalent of Hera).

Iris's original symbol was a rainbow and a star: [[File:Iris symbol (fixed width).svg|16px]] or more simply [[File:Iris symbol (simple, fixed width).svg|16px]]. It is in the pipeline for [[Unicode]] 17.0 as U+1CEC1 𜻁 ([[File:Iris 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>