Tisiphone is asteroid #466 and also known as 1901 FX. Tisiphone is of the type C. Tisiphone’s orbit is characterized by a semi-major axis of 3.40 Astronomical Units, an eccentricity of 0.08, a period of revolution of 2 249 days, and an inclination of 19.2 degrees. Tisiphone was discovered by the German (from Baden, a grand-dukedom with Karlsruhe as the capital, while Germany still didn’t exist) astronomer Maximilian Franz Joseph Cornelius Wolf, usually referred to as Max Wolf, and the Italian astronomer Luigi Carnera at the Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory (Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl).

Tisiphone is named after Tisiphónē (Τισιφόνη) or Teisiphónē (Τεισιφόνη), one of the Erinýes (Ἐρινύες) from Greek mythology, also known as Furies in Roman mythology. The name Tisiphónē (Τισιφόνη) means “the Avenging”. The outer appearance of the Erinýes (Ἐρινύες) is only known from a description of Tisiphónē (Τισιφόνη). Differences between the Erinýes (Ἐρινύες) are described nowhere and they also don’t have own tales. They only appear as persons of their own in some later fiction. Tisiphónē (Τισιφόνη) however is in a tale mentioned as a divine agent spurring on the war between Polyneíkēs (Πολυνείκης) and Eteokles (Ἐτεοκλῆς). This had no further relevance, neither for this war nor any involved hero nor otherwise. So only her name offers itself for deriving an astrological meaning, so the asteroid Tisiphone in a more general way than the asteroid Delia represents avengers (although rather not the Marvel superheroes of this name).