Schlafes Bruder Schlafes Bruder Schlafes Bruder is a novel by the Austrian Robert Schneider. The book was first published in German in 1992. It was an international success and was adapted to a film and an opera, among others. The plot is set in an Austrian mountain village in the 19th century. The protagonists (Elias, Peter and Elsbeth) face hardship and fate that they cannot understand nor prevent. The title is derived from Greek mythology, where Hypnos, god of sleep, is the brother of Thanatos, god of death. A chorale which Bach set to conclude his cantata "Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne
14827 Hypnos with respect to the ecliptic. It is frequently perturbed by Jupiter. The body's observation arc begins at Anderson Mesa Station the night prior to its official discovery observation at Palomar. As a near-Earth object and potentially hazardous asteroid "Hypnos" has an Earth minimum orbital intersection distance of , which corresponds to 5.7 lunar distances. In 1958, "Hypnos" passed less than 0.03 AU from both Earth and Mars. Neither planet has been approached so closely by "Hypnos" since the 862 AD pass of Earth, or will be until the 2214 pass of Earth. It is also a Mars-crosser. "Hypnos" may be