(137) Meliboea is a main belt asteroid discovered in April of 1874. It was spotted without being identified in March of 1923, October of 1958 and April of 1962.
The orbit is located at the outter main belt. It has a perihelion of 2.45 AU and an aphelion of 3.79 AU. The semimajor axis is at 3.12 AU. It has an orbital period of 5 years and 189 days. It has an inclination of 13.4º. It has a diameter of about 145 km.
There are photometric obsrvations in the years 1990-1991, 2002 and 2009. Star occultations occured in May of 2001, September of 2007, November of 2009 and January of 2016.
Orbital resonance:
16:3 with Saturn (99.9%)
15:7 with Jupiter (99.7%)
1:9 with Venus (99.6%)
2:11 with Earth-Moon (99.6%)
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5:6 with Ceres-Pallas (99.8%)
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7:9 with Eunomia (99.8%)
15:13 with Cybele (99.6%)
10:11 with Psyche (99.6%)
5:6 with Herculina (99.5%)
Greek mythology
Meliboea was a young maiden of Ephesus, who had a loving relationship with a young man named Alexis. However, her parents betrothed her to another man, so that Alexis, desperate, had to leave the city.
On her wedding day, Meliboea tried to kill herself by jumping off the roof, but landed unhurt. She fled to the seashore, where she found a boat. When she mounted on it, the ropes loosened on their own and the boat got out at sea. Without direction, the boat took her to the port of a city, in which Meliboea found Alexis, who was preparing a feast with his friends.
The reunited lovers got married, and in gratitude, two temples were dedicated to the goddess Aphrodite, called "Automate" (spontaneous or by it self) and "Epidaetia" (time to sit at the table to eat).
(137) Meliboea is related with the ability to be placed at the right time and place, respect to what one is wishing, like at the end of the movie "Serendipity" (2001) and at the beginning of the movie "Pretty Woman" (1990), or in the movies "Star Trek" (2009), "Dragon Fly" (2002) and "The Silence of the Lambs" (1991).
Shakti Gawain, author of the book "Creative Visualization" (1978), has Meliboea in Cancer in trine with Mercury in Scorpio, and in square with Vesta in Libra. Mercury also forms a trine with Uranus in Cancer, and a sextile with Saturn in Virgo.
(1902) Shaposhnikov is a hilda asteroid discovered in April of 1972. There are prediscovery images back to October of 1966, May of 1956 and April of 1955. It was spotted without being identified in April of 1940, June of 1941, October of 1950, November and December of 1951, October and November of 1958, December of 1959 and May of 1972.
The orbit is between the outter main belt and zone of orbital piercing from Jupiter toward the main belt. It has a perihelion of 3.08 AU and an aphelion of 4.84 AU. The semimajor axis is at 3.96 AU. It has an orbital period of 7 years and 328 days. It has an inclination of 12.4º. It has a diameter of about 97 km.
During the year 2010 and 2011, photometric observations were made.
Orbital resonance:
5:21 with Mars (99.9%)
3:2 with Jupiter (99.9%)
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12:17 with Hygiea (99.9%)
7:12 with Ceres-Pallas (99.9%)
Historical character
Vladimir Grigorevich Shaposhnikov (1905-1942), was an astronomer, expert in astrometry, who worked at the Simeiz Observatory, before perishing in the World War II.
The discovery of (1902) Shaposhnikov clashed with the development of the behavioral-event interview technique (McClelland & Dayley, 1972), using the critical incidence method (Flanagan, 1954) and the TAT (Thematic Apperception Test , McClelland), which were developed during the prediscoveries of this asteroid in the 1950s.
"The 5th Wave" (2016)
In the behavioral-event interviews progressively deeper questions are asked about how respondent acted, felt and thought in a specific situation of the past, in order to know if he has the necessary skills for the job requested.
(1902) Shaposhnikov is related with situations in which, to clear all initial doubts (3:2 resonance with Jupiter), it goes more and more deeper into the desired characteristics of a nutrition source, wich can be food, relationships or work.
