(origin is Latin "Hassias" meaning "Hess", the German state.)Discovered by Peter Armbruster, Gottfried Munzenber and co-workers at GSI in Darmstadt,Germany in 1984.
'Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth. Our obligation to survive is owed not just to ourselves but also to that Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring.'