Orchis is asteroid #1080 and also known as 1927 QB. Orchis has a rotation period of 16.1 h and measures twenty-two kilometers in diameter. Orchis is a non-family asteroid of the Asteroid Main Belt’s background population. Orchis is of the type F. Orchis’ orbit is characterized by a semi-major axis of 2.42 Astronomical Units, an eccentricity of 0.26, a period of revolution of 1’375 days, and an inclination of 4.6 degrees. Orchis was discovered by the German astronomer Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth at the Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory (Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl, a department of the university of Heidelberg).

Orchis is named after the orchid genus Orchis. Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth discovered so many asteroids that he in the early 1930s submitted a list of sixty-six newly named asteroids. Orchis belongs to this list as well as to a sequence of twenty-eight asteroids beginning with #1054 and by Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth all named after plants. Some species of Orchis feature twin tubers and these led to the genus name Orchis, that also is the Ancient Greek word órkhis (ὄρχις), which means testicle. By the way, Wikipedia has a list of taxa named after human genitals and for whatever reason offers this list only in English. It’s quite unlikely that an asteroid gets named after a human genital, so if this should be an intention, then a detour has to get deployed.

So the asteroid Orchis represents testicles. Orchis also represents orchid plants. But many asteroids are named after plants, so the latter meaning isn’t Orchis’ real peculiarity.