(4179) Toutatis, transition between peace and war, and vice versa

(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).