Juno in Mythology - The Roman queen of heaven, sister and wife of Jupiter. She was often known as the goddess of childbirth. Her sacred birds were geese and peacocks, and her Greek equivilent was Hera. Hera was very guarrelsome, and primarily the goddess of marriage and maternity. Most Greek myth portrays her as jealous and obsessed with the extra-marital affairs of her husband (Zeus). Her fury was famous, leading to the destruction of Troy and the death of Hercules.

Lemures in Mythology - The ancient Romans believed that, after death, human souls wandered the world, disturbing the living. The evil spirits, who haunted the wicked, were called larvae or lemures. Festivals were held in honor of lemures annually in May. Called Lemuria or Lemuralia, they were instituted by Romulus to appease the ghost of his brother Remus.

Juno in Astronomy - Juno is an asteroid (among about 30,000) which are between the orbits of Jupiter and Mars. Juno, the third asteroid discovered, was found by K. Harding in 1804. On average, it is 247.8 million miles from the sun and takes 4.36 years to complete one orbit. Its diameter is 118 miles.