Anius is asteroid #8060 and also known as 1973 SD₁. Anius is a member of the asteroid-family or asteroid-clan Eurybates in the Greek camp of the Jupiter trojans. Anius was discovered during the course of the Palomar-Leiden Survey at the Palomar Observatory.

Anius is named after Ánios (Ἄνιος), a character from Greek mythology. Ánios (Ἄνιος) was the son of Rhoiṓ (Ῥοιώ), who was a daughter of Staphylos (Στάφυλος). Rhoiṓ (Ῥοιώ) still was unmarried, when she got pregnant. Her father Staphylos (Στάφυλος), who didn’t know that the god Apollon was the father of the child of Rhoiṓ (Ῥοιώ), got so upset that he put Rhoiṓ (Ῥοιώ) in a box and then threw this box into the sea. The box was washed ashore either on the island Euboea (Εύβοια) or, more likely, the island Delos (Δῆλος). There Rhoiṓ (Ῥοιώ) gave birth to Ánios (Ἄνιος). Rhoiṓ (Ῥοιώ) prayed to Apollon that he should acknowledge his child. Apollon granted the wish and blessed Ánios (Ἄνιος) with the skill to precisely predict the future by the flight of birds. Rhoiṓ (Ῥοιώ) married the hero Zarex (Ζάρηξ), who then adopted Ánios (Ἄνιος) as his son. Ánios (Ἄνιος) became the priest and king on the island of Delos (Δῆλος). He bought the Thracian woman Dorippe (Δωρίππη) for the price of a horse from some pirates, who had kidnapped her. Ánios (Ἄνιος) married Dorippe (Δωρίππη) and had with her three daughters and three sons. The daughters later became known as the Oenotropae and their names were Oeno, Spermo, and Elais. These names mean wine, wheat, and oil. The god Dionysos, who has been one of the ancestors of Rhoiṓ (Ῥοιώ) granted the special ability to the three daughters to turn everything, which they touched, into wine, wheat, or oil respectively, in accordance with their names. The Oenotropae used their special abilities to supply the Greek military fleet before it set sails to Troy. The Greek supreme commander Agamemnon thought that taking the three girls with him to Troy would be a good idea. But Ánios (Ἄνιος) knew the future so precisely that he also knew that the war would last ten years. So he wanted his daughters to stay. He promised to Agamemnon to send more aliments regularly and the girls would go to Troy in the tenth year of the war. Agamemnon on the other hand didn’t expect any resistance, so had already given order that the girls will go with the fleet to Troy. So Odysseus abducted the three girls. They prayed to Dionysos, who then turned them into doves. The three sons of Ánios (Ἄνιος) were Andros, Mykonos, and Thasos. Andros and Mykonos lend their names to islands, which they reigned. Thasos was less lucky and got devoured by a dog. In consequence keeping dogs got prohibited on Delos (Δῆλος). In some accounts the Trojan princess Kréousa (Κρέουσα) is instead of Rhoiṓ (Ῥοιώ) the mother of Ánios (Ἄνιος). Kréousa (Κρέουσα) was captivated by the Greek warriors, so this version would put Ánios (Ἄνιος) in a later time within Greek mythology. Ánios (Ἄνιος) was a friend of Anchises. The latter was together with his son Aeneas fleeing from Troy to Italy. They made a stop-over on Delos (Δῆλος), where they were guests of Ánios (Ἄνιος). Aeneas in a rare variant of the tale marries a girl named Lavinia, who has prophetic skills because she is another (later) daughter of Ánios (Ἄνιος). The son of Lavinia and Aeneas got named Ánios (Ἄνιος), too.

The official naming citation quotes only the Oenotropae arc of the tale. The part of Ánios (Ἄνιος) only is to lose his daughters. He also lost a son to a dog. So the asteroid Anius will indicate that a father loses his children. This doesn’t need to be a prediction of death.