Monday 25 April 2016

(5731) Zeus, sharp and pointy objects, with high penetration capacity

(5731) Zeus is an apollo asteroid discovered in November of 1988. There are prediscovery images back to October-September of 1988.

The orbit is located between the zone of orbital piercing from Venus toward the Earth-Moon system, and the Cybele zone. It has a perihelion of 0.78 AU and an aphelion of 3.74 AU. The semimajor axis is at 2.26 AU. It has an orbital period of 3 years and 149 days. It has an inclination of 11.4º.


Orbital resonance:
11:20 with Mars (99.7%)
5:17 with Earth-Moon (99.7%)
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18:11 with Hygiea (99.9%)
8:5 with Europa (99.8%)
19:10 with Sylvia (99.8%)
11:7 with Interamnia (99.7%)



Mitología Griega

Zeus was represented in two different ways in the classical Greek era:
  1. Sitting majestically on his throne.
  2. Standing, striding forward, with a lightning bolt in his raised right hand.

(5731) Zeus is related with sharp and pointy objects, with high penetration capacity.

"Prince of Persia - Warrior Within" (2004)

Monday 11 April 2016

(532) Herculina, education and teaching

(532) Herculina is a main belt asteroid discovered in April of 1904. It was spotted without being identified in May of 1950.

The orbit is located at the mid zone of the main belt. It has a perihelion of 2.28 AU and an aphelion of 3.26 AU. The semimajor axis is at 2.77 AU. It has an orbital period of 4 years and 226 days. It has an inclination of 16.3º.It has a diameter of about 222 km.


Photometric observations were carried out in the years 1982, 1985, 1987-1988, 2002 and 2004. Star were occulted in June of 1978, June of 2002 and April of 2015.

Orbital resonance:
2:15 with Venus (99.8%)
18:7 with Jupiter (99.8%)
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11:14 with Vesta (99.9%)
1:1 with Ceres-Pallas (99.6%)
11:8 with Cybele (99.9%)
13:12 with Psyche (99.8%)
6:5 with Hygiea (99.4%)



Historical character

The asteroid (532) Herculina was discovered by Max Wolf (1863-1932), whose father strove to inculcate interest in science, building a small observatory in the garden of his family home. After completing his postgraduate studies, he accepted a teaching post at Heidelberg University, rejecting positions at other institutions for several years. He participated actively in the supervision of the construction of the observatory Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl, where he worked as a director, once inaugurated and until his death.

(532) Herculina is related to education and teaching (11:8 resonance with Cybele). It has the capacity to transmit patterns of behavior and norms of coexistence to children, like in the movie "Superman" (1978); or procedures and company policy to workers who have just joined into the company, like in the movie "Unstoppable" (2010).

"Unstoppable" (2010)

Cesar Millán, canine trainer and instructor in the TV series "The Dog Whisperer" (2004), has Herculina in Sagittarius and in the 4th Moon-Node House, in conjunction with Mars and the Great Attractor.

Friday 1 April 2016

(99) Dike, structured family

(99) Dike is a main belt asteroid discovered in May of 1868. It was spotted without being identified in January of 1915, October of 1935, December of 1935, October of 1939, October of 1948, November of 1948, December of 1961 and November of 1974.

The orbit is located in the midle of the main belt. It has a perihelion of 2.14 AU and an aphelion of 3.18 AU. The semimajor axis is at 2.66 AU. It has an orbital period of 4 years and 127 days. It has an inclination of 13.8º. It has a diameter of about
81 km.

Photometric observations were carried out in the years 2009 and 2011. There were star occultations in October 2003, December 2005, February 2012 and May 2016.

Orbital resonance:
1:18 with Mercury (99.6%)
3:13 with Earth-Moon (99.6%)
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5:6 with Vesta (99.8%)
1:1 with Juno (99.7%)
9:7 with Hygiea (99.6%)
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19:13 with Cybele (99.8%)
16:13 with Interamnia (99.8%)
5:4 with Europa (99.7%)
9:7 with Euphrosyne (99.7%)



Greek mythology

Dike was the goddess of moral justice, as the basis of orderly and legitimate family. 


(99) Dike is related with correct relationships between the different members of a family and between each of them with the social outside.


Stephenie Meyer, author of the books of the saga "Twilight" (2005-2008), has Dike in Pisces (10th-11th Moon-Node Houses) in trine with Saturn in cancer (6th-7th Moon-Node Houses), and in sextile with the Sun and the Moon in capricorio (12th-1st Moon-Node Houses), which are in trine with Mars in Taurus (8th-9th Moon-Node Houses).

Kristen Stewart, actress of the saga of movies "Twilight" (2008-2012) has Dike in Sagittarius (10th-11th Moon-Node Houses) in trine with the Sun in Aries (2nd-3rd Moon-Node Houses).   


Chris Noth, actor of the movies "The Perfect Man" (2005) and the TV series "The Good Wife" (2009), has Dike in Libra (4th Moon-Node House) in septile with the Venus-Ceres conjunction. The beginning of the filming of "The Good Wife" (2009) clashed with the opposition in the Moon-Node Horoscope between the Age Progression and Dike.