(4179) Toutatis is an apollo asteroid discovered in January of 1989. There are prediscovery images back to July of 1988 and May of 1976. It was spotted without being identified in February of 1934.
The orbit is located between the zone of orbital piercing from Earth-Moon system toward Venus, and the Hilda zone. It has a perihelion of 0.93 AU and an aphelion of 4.12 AU. The semimajor axis is at 2.53 AU. It has an orbital period of 4 years and 10 days. It has an inclination of 0.4º. It has a diameter of about 5.4 km.
In September of 2004, its proximity to Earth was only 0.0104 AU (4 lunar distancias). Photometric observations were made in the years 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004 and 2008.
In December of 2012, the Chinese lunar probe made a flyby of (4179) Toutatis, taking pictures at a distance of 3.2 km.
Orbital resonance:
7:15 with Mars (99.9%)
22:3 with Saturn (99.6%)
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8:7 with Ceres-Pallas (99.9%)
9:10 with Vesta (99.9%)
13:12 with Juno (99.9%)
18:13 with Hygiea (99.9%)
11:7 with Cybele (99.7%)
8:7 with Herculina (99.7%)
Celtic mythology
Tutatis (also called Teutates), was a male deity of the Gauls pantheon, Ombudsman, legislator, guardian and referee.
In the comic "Asterix the Gaul" (Uderzo and Goscinny, 1959), the story takes place around the year 50 BC in a fictitious village, northwest of Gaul, which still has not been conquered by the Rome of Julius Caesar.
The Tutatis god is one of the most acclaimed by the Gauls Asterix and Obelix each time the opportunity to fight against the Roman guards is presented.
(4179) Toutatis is related with the transition between peace and war, and vice versa. The conflict is intuited well in advance as it is gradually increasing (7:15 resonance with Mars), like in the movie "I-Robot" (2004).
109P Swift-Tuttle is a comet of the scattered disc discovered in July of 1862. There are prediscovery images back to July of 1737. It reached the perihelion in December of 1992.
The orbit is between the Earth-Moon system and the beginning of the scattered disc, with an orbital piercing from the Earth-Moon system toward Venus. It has a perihelion of 0.95 AU and an aphelion of 51.98 AU. The semimajor axis is at 26.47 AU. It has an orbital period of 136 years. It has an inclination of 113.4º
109P/Swift-Tuttle is the comet that generates the meteor shower known as Perseid, with a peak between the 11th and 13th day of August each year.
Orbital resonance:
20:11 with Pluto (99.8%) *[11:6 with Pluto (99.3%); 9:5 with Pluto (98.8%)]
109P/Swift-Tuttle combines the sensory perception of Earth-Moon system
with the emotional awareness of the beginning of the scattered disc. It is related with the
intense emotion that is generated by wonderful sensory stimulus, such as a
shooting star.
(2254) Requiem is a main belt asteroid discovered in August of 1977. There are prediscovery images back to September of 1941 and October of 1916. It was spotted without being identified in August of 1941, September of 1959, August of 1966, April of 1972, May of 1976 and October of 1977.
The orbit is located at the inner main belt. It has a perihelion of 1.99 AU and an aphelion of 2.69 AU. The semimajor axis is at 2.34 AU. It has an orbital period of 3 years and 215 days. It has an inclination of 5.0º.
Orbital resonance:
11:21 with Mars (99.9%)
5:18 with Earth-Moon (99.7%)
1:15 with Mercury (99.3%)
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14:9 with Hygiea (99.8%)
9:7 with Herculina (99.9%)
Word in Latin
Requiem is a word in Latin that means 'rest' and it is almost exclusively
associated to any form of giving a farewell to the deceased. The name is
dedicated to the mother of the discoverer, who died on the same day
that it was discovered the asteroid.
(2254) Requiem is related with the ability to recognize in time the extinction
of the source of nutrition or the available resources. The causes of the
reduction or extinction of the resources may be due the end of the
season, natural disasters or uncontrolled consumption.
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