Iris is a large main-belt asteroid and possible remnant planetesimal orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter. It is the fourth-brightest object in the asteroid belt. 7 Iris is classified as an S-type asteroid, meaning that it has a stony composition.
Iris imaged by the Very Large Telescope in 2017
Star rich field showing asteroid Iris (apmag 10.1)
John Russell Hind FRS FRSE LLD was an English astronomer.
John Russell Hind c. 1860s
John Russell Hind