Wednesday 26 November 2014

(130) Elektra, ability to place the body in a secure position, which at the same time allows to react quickly to any attack

(130) Elektra is a main belt asteroid (outer zone II) discovered in February of 1873.

The orbit is located at th outer zone of the main belt. It has a perihelion of 2.47 AU and an aphelion of 3.77 AU. The semimajor axis is at 3.12 AU. It has an orbital period of 5 years and 189 days. It has an inclination of 22.9º (semioctile 22º30', 0º22' orb)
. It has a diameter of about 182 km.

Two satellites, of about 5 and 7 km, were discovered in August 2003 and December 2014.

Stellar occultation occurred in April 2008. Photometric observations were made in the year 1987.

"The Last of Us" (PS3, 2013)
Orbital resonance:
16:3 with Saturn (99.9)
15:7 with Jupiter (99.7)
2:11 with Earth-Moon (99.7)
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5:6 with Ceres (99.8)
5:6 with Pallas (99.6)
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7:9 with Eunomia (99.9
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Greek mythology

Electra was the daughter of Agamemnon, king of Mycenae, and his wife Clytemnestra. She had two sisters, Iphigenia and Chrysothemis, and one brother, Orestes.

After ten years of war in Troy, Agamemnon returned to Mycenae with Kassandra and his two twin sons, but was killed by Clytemnestra and Aegisthus, her lover. With the help of the wet nurse Arsínoe, Electra saved her younger brother --who was then a young kid-- and took him to Mount Parnassus, in Fanote, where she gived him to King Strophius for his care.

When Orestes turned twenty, the Delphic oracle suggested that he should return and avenge his father's death.

Orestes and Electra met at Agamemnon's tomb, where they agreed to revenge. With the help of Pylades, son of King Strophius, and accompanied by Electra, Orestes killed his mother and her lover.

"The Last of Us" (PS3, 2013)

The asteroid Elektra is related with the ability to place the body in a secure position, which at the same time allows to react quickly to any attack.

"The Last of Us" (PS3, 2013)

Ashley Johnson, voice actress of the video game "The Last of Us" (PS3, 2013), has Elektra in Virgo (10th Moon-Node House), in conjunction with Mercury --which is in conjunction with Venus--; and in trine/sextile with the Crossing Axis of Age Progressions (Sign Horoscope) in Taurus/Scorpio (2nd/8th Moon-Node Houses).