Asteroids in fiction
After Ceres, Asteroid 433 Eros is perhaps the most-commonly mentioned asteroid, probably because it is one of the largest near-Earth asteroids.
9549 Akplatonov
"Akplatonov" is a core member of the Eunomia family, a large group of stony S-type asteroids and the most prominent family in the intermediate main-belt. Alternatively, in Nesvorný's HCM-analysis, the asteroid belong's to the main belt's background population, while in an earlier such analysis, Thais Mothé-Diniz considered "Akplatonov" to be the largest body in a small cluster or clump of its own. It orbits the Sun in the central asteroid belt at a distance of 2.3–2.9 AU once every 4 years and 3 months (1,537 days; semi-major axis of 2.61 AU). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.11 and an inclination of 11° with respect to the ecliptic. The body's observation arc begins 4 years prior to its official discovery observation, with its first identification as at the discovering observatory in October 1981.