Saturday 16 January 2016

(1247) Memoria, list of unsettled tasks

(1247) Memoria is a main belt asteroid discovered in August of 1932. It was spotted without being identified in November of 1905, October of 1927, May of 1931 and March of 1936.

The orbit is located at the outter main belt. It has a perihelion of 2.58 AU and an aphelion of 3.67 AU. The semimajor axis is at 3.13 AU. It has an orbital period of 5 years and 200 days. It has an inclination of 1.7º. It has a diameter of about 36 km.

 
Orbital resonance: 
1:23 with Mercury (99.9%)
1:9 with Venus (99.8%)
15:7 with Jupiter (99.8%)
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5:6 with Pallas (99.9%)
11:14 with Juno (99.9%)
5:6 with Herculina (%100.0%
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Word from Latin

Memoria is a word in Latin, which is traslated as 'memory' and refers to several meanings related with the asteroid (1247) Memoria:
  1.  Psychic faculty through which the past is retained and recalled.
  2.  Remembrance that is made or warning that is given of something from the past.
  3.  Book, Notebook or paper in wich something is write down to bear it in mind.
  4.  Two or more rings that are brought in and placed as remembrance and reminder for the implementation of something, releasing one of them to hang over the finger.

(1247) Memoria is related with the list of unsettled tasks, that are keeped in mind to carry them out when there is time or the moment is right.


The most relevant of the asteroid (1247) Memoria is its ability to distribute in a balanced way the tasks and activities of the daily routine (1:23 resonance with Mercury).