The asteroid #22 is named Kalliope, although the website Heretical Oracles calls it wrongly Calliope. Since the owner of that blog is Greek, he should actually know it better. The asteroid is named after the muse Kalliopē (Καλλιόπη), who is also the mother of at least Hymenaios (Ὑμέναιος) and Linos (Λίνος) and also of Orpheus, who is also a son of Apollon. Kalliopē (Καλλιόπη) presides over eloquence and epic poetry. But also over string music and over philosophy. Only the latter explains why Kalliopē (Καλλιόπη) is believed to be the wisest of all muses and why her attribute is the tablet. Because she is the wisest of the muses, she was chosen as the referee when Aphrodite and Persephone fought over Adonis. When in late antiquity the celestial spheres became the realms of the muses, none was assigned to Kalliope, who became instead the supervisor of all the other muses.

The asteroid #22 or Kalliope was discovered by the British astronomer John Russell Hind. Kalliope is an asteroid in the Outer Asteroid Belt and her orbit shows an inclination of 13.72° with respect to the ecliptic. The eccentricity of the orbit is 0.099. Kalliope is of the type X (SMASS II) or M (Tholen). Kalliope belongs to the largest asteroids in the Asteroid Main Belt and has an appropriately large “asteroid moon”. When not considering the binary asteroids, then S/2001 (22) 1 or Kalliope I is the second-largest “asteroid moon”, otherwise still the fourth-largest. Kalliope I is named Linus after Linos (Λίνος), the son of Kalliope. This follows obviously the version of mythology, where Linos (Λίνος) is the son of Kalliope, and not the version, where Linos (Λίνος) is the son of Urania. Where he is the son of Kalliope, there he is also the son of Apollo. Linos (Λίνος) is a teacher of Herakles. In one version slays Herakles Linos after Linos as the teacher once punished Herakles and perhaps wasn’t right in that.

Kalliope is in an astrological chart a hint to wisdom. The muses can of course only hint to the realms over which they are presiding.