(762) Pulcova, fashions and viral phenomena

(762) Pulcova is a main belt asteroid discovered in September of 1913. It was spotted without being identified in August of 1913 and August of 1952.

The orbit it is located in the outer main belt. It has a perihelion of 2.82 AU and an aphelion of 3.47 AU. The semimajor axis is at 3.15 AU. It has an orbital period of 5 years and 219 days. It has an inclination of  13.0º. It has a diameter of about 142 km. There are photometric observations in the year 2008.

A satellite of (762) Pulcova, with about 19 km, was discovered in February of 2000 and anounced in October of 2000.

Orbital resonance:
21:4 with Saturn (99.8%)
17:8 with Jupiter (99.6%)
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7:9 with Juno (99.8%)
11:17 with Vesta (99.8%)


Astronomical observatory

(762) Pulcova was named after Pulkovo Observatory, near Saint Petersburg. 

In the elementary school where I studied, there was always a topic that becomed a fashion for everyone, it could be a trading cards colection, games, marbles or searching for quartz. However, when I turned nine years old, all that disappeared, because the total number of children in the school break for playtime was reduced when an additional school was opened in the municipality, were half of the students moved.

"A colony of ants is able to perform tasks of great complexity, as exploring its environment, building galleries, or decide the source of food between two possible choices. Pero, consideradas una por una, ninguna puede acometer, por sí sola, semejantes tareas, decimos que el comportamiento social del hormiguero emerge a partir de interaciones entre hormigas y no es reducible a las propiedades de un individuo de la colonia. But, taken one by one, none of them can undertake, by itself, such tasks, we say that the social behavior of the ant's nest emerges from interactions between ants and is not reducible to the properties of an individual of the colony. The same applies to the brain and the neurons that form it or to an ecosystem and the species that form it.

There is a critical density of ants, in which the system behaves as a whole, half way between order and disorder. If we try to modify their environment so to increase its density, the colony redefines its borders (hoarding close material) to return to its natural density." (translated to English from Spanish version of "New Scientist", May 1996)

"The Quiet Man" (1952)

(762) Pulcova is related with fashions, viral phenomena and gossip that expand collectively (11:17 resonance with Vesta), like in the movies "The Quiet Man" (1952) and "Malena" (2000).

"Malena" (2000)

(1247) Memoria, list of unsettled tasks

(1247) Memoria is a main belt asteroid discovered in August of 1932. It was spotted without being identified in November of 1905, October of 1927, May of 1931 and March of 1936.

The orbit is located at the outter main belt. It has a perihelion of 2.58 AU and an aphelion of 3.67 AU. The semimajor axis is at 3.13 AU. It has an orbital period of 5 years and 200 days. It has an inclination of 1.7º. It has a diameter of about 36 km.
 
Orbital resonance: 
1:23 with Mercury (99.9%)
1:9 with Venus (99.8%)
15:7 with Jupiter (99.8%)
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5:6 with Pallas (99.9%)
11:14 with Juno (99.9%)
5:6 with Herculina (%100.0%)
 

Word from Latin

Memoria is a word in Latin, which is traslated as 'memory' and refers to several meanings related with the asteroid (1247) Memoria:

1.  Psychic faculty through which the past is retained and recalled.
2.  Remembrance that is made or warning that is given of something from the past.
3.  Book, Notebook or paper in wich something is write down to bear it in mind.
4.  Two or more rings that are brought in and placed as remembrance and reminder for the implementation of something, releasing one of them to hang over the finger.

(1247) Memoria is related with the list of unsettled tasks, that are keeped in mind to carry them out when there is time or the moment is right.

The most relevant of the asteroid (1247) Memoria is its ability to distribute in a balanced way the tasks and activities of the daily routine (1:23 resonance with Mercury).

(105) Artemis, detecting environmental signals that are out of the usual

(105) Artemis is a main belt asteroid discovered in September of 1868.
 
The orbit is located at the inner main belt. It has a perihelion of 1.95 AU and an aphelion of 2.79 AU. The semimajor axis is at 2.37 AU. It has an orbital period of 3 years and 241 days. It has an inclination of  21.4º (golden aspect 21º15' [golden aspect 68º45' > 0º Cancer], 0º12' orb). It has a diameter of about 119 km.

Photometric observations were carry out in the year 1988, in December of 2006 and in October of 2010. Star occultations were produced in October of 1981 and in December of 2007.

Orbital resonance:
3:11 with Earth-Moon (99.8%)
13:4 with Jupiter (99.7%)
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19:13 with Interamnia (99.9%)
20:13 with Davida (99.8%)
15:11 with Psyche (99.8%)
16:9 with Sylvia (99.7%)


Greek mythology

Atemis was the virgin goddess of hunt, wild animals and uncultivated lands. She was associated with the Moon. She preferred free living in the countryside and forests, to that of cities.

On one occasion, Zeus --disguised as Artemis-- seduced one of her companions, a beautiful princess named Callisto. After a few months, when she went to take a bath with Artemis, she discovered that she was pregnant. Very anger, she turned Callisto into a bear to be hunted. On another occasion, Actaeus of Thebes, faithful follower of Artemis and virgin like her, had the bad luck to clash with the goddess in one of his hunts while she was bathing naked. Artemis, relentless, turned him into a deer who was killed by his own hunting dogs.

This mythology describes the subjective experience of being exposed to the appearance of hunters or predators, like at the beginning of the movie "The Bourne Supremacy" (2004).

(105) Artemis is related to the ability to detect environmental signals that are out of the usual (3:11 resonance with the Earth-Moon system).

"Apocalypto" (2007)

(6235) Burney, analogy between a very personal approach and its link at the collective level

(6235) Burney is a dwarf main belt asteroid discovered in November of 1987. There are prediscovery images back to September of 1987 and August of 1953. It was spotted without being identified in October of 1950, December of 1984 and December of 1984.

The orbit is located at the inner main belt. It has a perihelion of 1.92 AU and an aphelion of 2.56 AU. The semimajor axis is at 2.24 AU. It has an orbital period of 3 years and 131 days. It has an inclination of 2.9º. It has a diameter of about 4 km.

Orbital resonance:
1:14 with Mercury (99.6%)
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13:10 with Juno (99.8%)
13:12 with Vesta (99.7%)
11:8 with Herculina (99.9%)
17:9 with Cybele (99.9%)
5:3 with Euphrosyne (99.8%)

 
Historical celebrity

Venetia Burney,, at the age of 11 years, proposed the name that would become official for the planet Pluto:

"It was about 8 o’clock and I was having breakfast with my mother and my grandfather; and my grandfather as usual opened the paper, the Times, and in it he read that a new planet had been discovered. He wondered what it should be called. We all wondered. And then I said, “Why not call it Pluto”. And the whole thing stemmed from that."

Her grandfather forwarded the suggestion to astronomer Herbert Hall Turner, who cabled his American colleagues at Lowell Observatory. Clyde Tombaugh, the discoverer of the new planet, liked the name because it started with the initials of Percival Lowell who had initiated the search for Pluto. Because of its mythological coherence with the rest of the classical planets, the name was formally adopted. 

The most amazing this thing is that she was referring to Pluto, the dog of Walt Disney that always accompanies Mickey Mouse!

(6235) Burney is related with very personal approaches, that later have validity at the collective level, due to its analogy (17:9 resonance with Cybele and 1:14 with Mercury), like in the movie "What Lies Beneth" (2000).

(451) Patientia, reasonable doubt

(451) Patientia is a main belt asteroid discovered in December of 1899.

It has a perihelion of 2.82 AU and an aphelion of 3.29 AU. The semimajor axis is at 3.06 AU. It has an orbital period of 5 years and 127 days. It has an inclination of 15.2º. It has a diameter of about 225 km.

There are photometric observations between the years 1969 and 2003. There were star occultations in June of 1999, October of 2010, February of 2013 and May of 2015.

Orbital resonance:
11:2 with Saturno (99.8%)
20:9 with Júpiter (99.7%)
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1:1 with Interamnia (99.9%)


Word in Latín

Patientia is a word in Latin that means patience:

1. The bearing of provocation, annoyance, misfortune, or pain without complaint, loss of temper, or anger.
2. An ability or willingness to suppress restlessness or annoyance when confronted with delay.
3. Quiet, steady perseverance; even-tempered care; diligence.

(451) Patientia was discovered a year after the release of the classic story of Henry James about ghosts: "The Turn of the Screw" (1898).

(451) Patientia is related with ambiguous situations in which initially it is not reasonable to commit to any of the possible hypothesis, because there is not enough information, or because the various competing hypotheses are very balanced, like in the movies "K-Pax"(2001), "Darbareye Elly" (2009) and "Stone" (2010). 

"What's really interesting about the film to me, is how do you respond to an act like this? And it's a movie that says you respond by not rushing headlong into war; you don't do a knee-jerk violent reaction. You take the time to get the facts, get the information and then you deal with it." (Phil Alden Robinson, director of the movie "The Sum of All Fears", 2002)

Unlike zen riddles, which are ideally designed, the situations related with (451) Patientia refer to real-life situations were it is finally possible to find a solution to the enigma, even though it may cost a lot of effort or take a long time.

"Scooby Doo" (1969)

(114) Kassandra, brave action that is intuitively felt as right

(114) Kassandra is a main belt asteroid discovered in July of 1871.

The orbit is located in the mid zone of the main belt. It has a perihelion of 2.31 AU and an aphelion of 3.04 AU. The semimajor axis is at 2.67 AU. It has an orbital period of 4 years and 138 days. It has an inclination of 4.9º. It has a diameter of about 100 km.

Photometric observations were taken in the year 2001. There were stelar occultations in July and October of 2002.

Orbital resonance:
3:7 with Mars (99.8%)
19:7 with Jupiter (99.7%)
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14:11 with Hygiea (99.9%)
9:7 with Davida (99.8%)
11:9 with Interamnia (99.8%)

 
Greek mythology

Cassandra visited the sanctuary of Apollo and he fell in love with her extraordinary beauty. To win her love, he granted the gift of prophecy, but not even then he achieved the young princess. As the divine gifts are irrevocable and could not be undone, for revenge, he completed it with another: no one would give credit to her prophecies.

Cassandra was able to clearly see the impending tragedies that were waiting to happen in Troy, but for her desperation, she could not do nothing to prevent it, because she was always considered mad.

Like the symbolism of the card "7 of wands" in the Waite or Crowley tarot, (114) Kassandra is related with brave actions that are intuitively felt as right, even if it is not possible to give a logical explanation of why that is so. The situation takes place on an running process, which is becoming more relevant as time goes on (3:7 resonance with Mars), like at the end of the movie "The Sum of All Fears" (2002).

"Spring Breakers" (2012) [1]

"Spring Breakers" (2012) [2]