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.