Klio is asteroid #84 and was discovered by Karl Theodor Robert Luther. Klio is of the type G and has an orbital period of 1 326 days and belongs hence to the Inner Asteroid Belt. Klio’s orbit has an eccentricity of 0.237 and an inclination of 9.341° with respect to the ecliptic. Klio is the same asteroid, that is sometimes misspelled as Clio, for example by the French Wikipedia or by Heretical Oracles, who should really know better when claiming to be Greek.

Klio is named after the muse Kleiō (Κλειώ), who is one of the nine daughters of Mnemosyne with Zeus. Kleiō (Κλειώ) is the muse of history and this should make you wonder whether history needs to be inspired by a muse. But her name, which means to make famous, explains what she really inspires. Some praise Kleiō (Κλειώ) as “the proclaimer, glorifier and celebrator of history, great deeds and accomplishments” and this is what is really meant when she is called the muse of history. She is actually the muse of praising heroes. She is often represented with an open parchment scroll, a book, or a set of tablets. This is how to recognize her. Although she, like the other muses, hasn’t a tale, she has become a mother. It is only disputed whether she is with Oibalos (Οἴβαλος) king of Sparta or with Amyklas (Αμύκλας) or with Píeros (Πίερος) of Magnesia the mother of Hyakinthos (Ὑάκινθος) or the mother of Hymenaios (Ὑμέναιος) or the mother of the poet Linos (Λῖνος) of Argos (Άργος).

Nowadays is writing history something else than praising heroes. The muse of “history” should be prominent and well-aspected for theater plays or movies of historic heroes, for example if you want to make another movie on Alexander the Great. Chariklo together with Klio in a prominent and good position would be promising if the story of a hero should take place in the future, another planet, or if you want to invent another superhero.