Thursday, 31 March 2016

(96189) Pygmalion, the touching moments of 'Venus in square'

(96189) Pygmalion is an amor asteroid discovered in July of 1991. There is a prediscovery image back to March of 1986.

The orbit is between Earth-Mars and the inner main belt. It has a perihelion of 1.26 AU and an aphelion of 2.37 AU. The semimajor axis is at 1.82 AU. It has an orbital period of 2 years and 168 days. It has an inclination of 13.9º. It has a diameter of about 3.2 km.


Orbital resonance:
1:4 with Venus (99.9%)
13:17 with Mars (99.9%)
12:1 with Saturn (99.7%)
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15:8 with Ceres-Pallas (99.8%)
16:9 with Juno (99.7%)
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16:7 with Davida (99.9%)
15:8 with Herculina (99.8%)
7:4 with Eunomia (99.8%)



Greek mythology

For a long time, Pygmalion, King of Cyprus, was searching, without finding her, a woman whose beauty corresponded to his ideal of woman. In the end, he decided to build a statue that reflected those ideals of beauty.

Pygmalion eventually fell in love with the statue, which he called Galatea. Thanks to Aphrodite, one night he dreamed that Galatea had came to life. And when he woke up, Pygmalion met Aphrodite, who was very touched and said: "You deserve that happiness, the one you have made. Here you have the queen you have been looking for. Love her and defend her".

The discovery of (96189) Pygmalion clashed with the release of the movie "The Beauty and the Beast" (Disney, 1991).


(96189) Pygmalion is related with the touching moments of dramatic tension, typical of 'Venus in square', in which the solution for love demands to take the most difficult path.

"Prince of Persia - Sands of Time" (2010)

The effort to overcome the resistances of the situation, leads to decisive actions that consolidate the love relationship (1:4 resonance with Venus), like in the romantic novels of Nicholas Sparks: "The Notebook" (1996) , "Message in a Bottle" (1998), "A Walk to Remember" (1999), "Nights in Rodanthe" (2002), "Dear John" (2006), "The Choice" (2008), "The Last Song" (2009), "Safe Heaven" (2010), "The Best of Me" (2011) and "The Longest Ride" (2013).

"Safe Heaven" (2013)

Nicholas Spark, author of romantic novels, has Pygmalion in Gemini and in the 12th Moon-Node House, near Jupiter; in square with Uranus-Pluto in Virgo and the 9th Moon-Node House; In square with Quiron and Sylvia in Pisces and in the 3rd Moon-Node House; And near the opposition with Mercury in Sagittarius and in the 6th Moon-Node House.