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)