Tuesday 20 October 2015

(114) Kassandra, brave action that is intuitively felt as right

(114) Kassandra is a main belt asteroid discovered in July of 1871.

The orbit is located in the mid zone of the main belt. It has a perihelion of 2.31 AU and an aphelion of 3.04 AU. The semimajor axis is at 2.67 AU. It has an orbital period of 4 years and 138 days. It has an inclination of 4.9º.
It has a diameter of about 100 km.

Photometric observations were taken in the year 2001. There were stelar occultations in July and October of 2002.

Orbital resonance:
3:7 with Mars (99.8%)
19:7 with Jupiter (99.7%)

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14:11 with Hygiea (99.9%)
9:7 with Davida (99.8%)
11:9 with Interamnia (99.8%)

 

Greek mythology

Cassandra visited the sanctuary of Apollo and he fell in love with her extraordinary beauty. To win her love, he granted the gift of prophecy, but not even then he achieved the young princess. As the divine gifts are irrevocable and could not be undone, for revenge, he completed it with another: no one would give credit to her prophecies.

Cassandra was able to clearly see the impending tragedies that were waiting to happen in Troy, but for her desperation, she could not do nothing to prevent it, because she was always considered mad.

Like the symbolism of the card "7 of wands" in the Waite or Crowley tarot, (114) Kassandra is related with brave actions that are intuitively felt as right, even if it is not possible to give a logical explanation of why that is so. The situation takes place on an running process, which is becoming more relevant as time goes on (3:7 resonance with Mars), like at the end of the movie "The Sum of All Fears" (2002).

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