Thursday 12 November 2015

(6235) Burney, analogy between a very personal approach and its link at the collective level

(6235) Burney is a dwarf main belt asteroid discovered in November of 1987. There are prediscovery images back to September of 1987 and August of 1953. It was spotted without being identified in October of 1950, December of 1984 and December of 1984.

The orbit is located at the inner main belt. It has a perihelion of 1.92 AU and an aphelion of 2.56 AU. The semimajor axis is at 2.24 AU. It has an orbital period of 3 years and 131 days. It has an inclination of 2.9º. It has a diameter of about 4 km.


Orbital resonance:
1:14 with Mercury (99.6%)
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13:10 with Juno (99.8%)
13:12 with Vesta (99.7%)
11:8 with Herculina (99.9%)
17:9 with Cybele (99.9%)
5:3 with Euphrosyne (99.8%)

 

Historical celebrity

Venetia Burney,, at the age of 11 years, proposed the name that would become official for the planet Pluto:

"It was about 8 o’clock and I was having breakfast with my mother and my grandfather; and my grandfather as usual opened the paper, the Times, and in it he read that a new planet had been discovered. He wondered what it should be called. We all wondered. And then I said, “Why not call it Pluto”. And the whole thing stemmed from that."

Her grandfather forwarded the suggestion to astronomer Herbert Hall Turner, who cabled his American colleagues at Lowell Observatory. Clyde Tombaugh, the discoverer of the new planet, liked the name because it started with the initials of Percival Lowell who had initiated the search for Pluto. Because of its mythological coherence with the rest of the classical planets, the name was formally adopted. 

The most amazing this thing is that she was referring to Pluto, the dog of Walt Disney that always accompanies Mickey Mouse!

(6235) Burney is related with very personal approaches, that later have validity at the collective level, due to its analogy (17:9 resonance with Cybele and 1:14 with Mercury), like in the movie "What Lies Beneth" (2000).