62 Erato (/ˈɛrətoʊ/ ERR-ə-toh) is a large and dark probably carbonaceous Themistian asteroid.[citation needed] It is a member of the Eos family.Erato is the first asteroid to have been credited with co-discoverers Oskar Lesser and Wilhelm Forster who discovered it on September 14 1860 from the Berlin Observatory. It was their first and only asteroid discovery.
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