Tuesday 7 February 2017

(101) Helena, the group with whom one would be willing to carry out a common activity

(101) Helena is a main belt asteroid discovered in August of 1868.

The orbit is locate at the center of the main belt. It has a perihelion of 2.22 AU and an aphelion of 2.94 AU. The semimajor axis is at 2.58 AU. It has an orbital period of 4 years and 58 days. It has an inclination of 10.2º. It has a diameter of about 67 km.


Photometric observations were carry out in October of 2001.

Orbital resonance:
20:7 with Jupiter (99.7%)
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10:9 with Pallas (99.8%)
10:9 with Ceres (99.6%)
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9:7 with Interamnia (99.9%)
10:9 with Herculina (99.9%)
6:5 with Psyche (99.8%
)
17:13 with Europa (99.8%)

 

Greek mythology

Helen (also known as Helen of Sparta or Helen of Troy) was the woman to whom Aphrodite promised to Paris. Helen was married with Menelao and had a 9-year-old daughter (Hermione) when she ran away with the Trojans.

Paris went to Sparta, where he was received hospitably by Menelaus and Helen. However, during his stay, Menelao had to travel to Crete to attend the funeral for the death of his maternal grandfather, Catreo.

When Helen reached the age of marriage, she had many suitors who came from all parts of Greece, encouraged by her great beauty and because she and her future husband would reign in Sparta. Tyndareus, the king of Sparta, fearing to provoke a war between the rejected suitors, followed the advice of Odysseus, which consisted in forcing the suitors to abide by the decision about wich will be the husband of Helen. Once the oath was made, Tyndareus chose Menelao, brother of Agamemnon, king of Mycenae, who was married to his other daughter, Clytemnestra.

"Divergent" (2014)

(101) Helena is related with the group with whom one would be willing to carry out a common activity, such as go partying, or to a sports or musical event (17:13 resonance with Europa), like in the movies "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" (2001), "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" (2001) and "The Fast & the Furious" (2001).

Thursday 2 February 2017

(3554) Amun, resolving logical puzzles

(3554) Amun is an aten asteroid discovered in March of 1986.

The orbit is between Venus and Earth/Mars, with an orbital piercing from Venus toward Mercury. It has a perihelion of 0.70 AU and an aphelion of 1.24 AU. The semimajor axis is at 0.97 AU. It has an orbital period of 350 days. It has an inclination of 23.3º. It has a diameter of about 2.5 km.


Orbital resonance:
9:14 with Venus (99.6%)
  *[7:11 with Venus (99.3%)]
1:4 with Mercury (99.6%)
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17:3 with Europa (99.8%)
9:2 with Eunomia (99.4%)
9:2 with Juno (99.0%
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Egiptian mythology

Amun was an invisible god with hidden power. He was on top of the other gods, but manifested through them. He was venerated especially in Thebes, the capital of Upper Egypt.

(3554) Amun represents the ability to resolve logical puzzles, such as the ones in the graphical adventures of video games that appeared from the time of its discovery, such as "Maniac Mansion" (1987), "The Secret of Monkey Island" (1989) and "Loom" (1990), which evolved and perfected in the following decades, from sagas of video games like "Tomb Raider" (1996) and "Uncharted" (2007).


Logical puzzles of video games are resolved by performing a series of steps, which sequentially link different physical elements to form a logical structure, by pulleys, gears, beams of light or pressure areas.


In general, (3554) Amun is related with the ability to resolve logic riddles and math problems, or to design computer programs (1:4 resonance with Mercury).

"Labyrinth" (1986)