2 Pallas a different name, 智神星 "zhìshénxīng" (which means "the wisdom-god(dess) star"), even though the Chinese call the goddess Pallas herself by the Greek name (帕拉斯 "pàlāsī"). The stony-iron Pallasite meteorites are not connected to the Pallas asteroid, being instead named after the German naturalist Peter Simon Pallas. The chemical element palladium, on the other hand, was named after the asteroid, which had been discovered just before the element. As with other asteroids, the astronomical symbol for Pallas is a disk with its discovery number, ②. It also has an older, more iconic symbol, ⚴ () or sometimes 🜍 (). Pallas has
2 Pallas Mars. The "Dawn" team was granted viewing time on the Hubble Space Telescope in September 2007 for a once-in-twenty-year opportunity to view Pallas at closest approach, to obtain comparative data for Ceres and Vesta. 2 Pallas is named after Pallas Athena (Ancient Greek: ), an alternate name for the goddess Athena. In some mythologies Athena killed Pallas, then adopted her friend's name out of mourning. "Pallas" is a Greek name and some other languages use variant versions of it for the asteroid: in Italian, "Pallade", Russian "Pallada", Spanish "Palas", and Arabic "Bālās", for example. In Chinese, however, the asteroid has