(1221) Amor, love at first sight

(1221) Amor is an amor asteroid discovered in March of 1932. It has a perihelion of 1.08 AU and an aphelion of 2.75 AU. The semimajor axis is at 1.91 AU. It has an orbital period of 2 years and 241 days. It has an inclination of 11.8º.


Roman mythology

Amor is the Latin name for Eros, the god of sexual attraction and passionate love in Greek mythology, equivalent to Cupid in Roman mythology.

(1221) Amor is related with the emotional and physiological effect that causes the physical presence and closeness of another person.

The discovery of (1221) Amor, at the beginning of the thirties, it has been a source of a lot of symbolic images, for example the movie "King Kong" (1933) or the comic "Superman" (1932) ('It is an aeroplane... a bird... it`s Superman!'); in cartoons, when a woman appears and the heart starts in and out of the chest with the heart beats (love at first sight); or in the old movies, where ladies dance in the stage showing the legs and later come to the tables to talk with people.

Another image of the asteroid (1221) Amor is the happiness of children, when parents come back to home after work (dogs are even more emotive). In general, (1221) Amor represents the feeling of well-beings that appears when the loved person is close.

Quan Yin, Chinesse Buddhism for C/1995 O1 (Hale-Bopp)

Quan Yin was the goddess of compassion. She became a goddess, after saving the life of her father, in spite of he burned her convent.

One of her legions (minor temples), looked after hearth and orphanages as a presence keeper. Thanks to her loving protection to single mothers and their illegitimate sons, as well as future mothers, she avoided abortions and suicides, when they were not assisted by the father of the creatures.

C/1995 O1 (Hale-Bopp), to be in favour of life

 A grass leaf is needed as much as the biggest star.

Without the grass leaf God will be less than he is.

This sound of the cuckoo is needed as much as any Buddha;

the world will be less, will be less rich if this cuckoo disappears.

(Osho-Zen Tarot, 1994) 

C/1995 O1 (Hale-Bopp) is an inner Oort cloud object discovered in July of 1995. It has a perihelion of 0.9 AU and an aphelion of 370.8 AU (inner Oort cloud object with the Earth at the perihelion). It has a diameter of about 60 km. There is a prediscovery image back to April of 1993. There is an important observation in October of 2007.

"Bella" (2007)

C/1995 O1 (Hale-Bopp) is always in favour of life and acts doubtless in front of a case of abort, suicide or death sentence, like in the movies "Jurassic Park" (1993), "Golden Gate" (1993), "Schindler's List" (1993), "In the Line of Fire" (1993), "Forrest Gump" (1994), "Pocahontas" (1995), "Timson Cride" (1995), "Bella" (2007), "Juno" (2007), "Life" (2007), "Se Jie (Lust, Caution)" (2007), "Das Leben der Anderen (La vida de los otros)", and "Rails & Ties" (2007) .

"Forrest Gump" (1994)

(7088) Ishtar, valuable object

(7088) Ishtar is an amor asteroid discovered in January of 1992. There are prediscovery images back to December and October of 1991 and March of 1981. It has a perihelion of 1.2 AU and an aphelion of 2.8 AU (orbit between Earth-Mars and main belt).

A satellite of (7088) Ishtar was discovered in January of 2006.

(7088) Ishtar is related with material objects that have an especial value or importance because of personal or social reasons, like the big diamond in the movie "Blood Diamond" (2006), the letter in the movie "The Constant Gardener" (2005), the arm of the T1000 found in the factory in the movie "Terminator: The Judgement Day" (1991), the lamp in the movie "Aladdin" 1992), the digital camera (with the pictures taken) in the movie "Final Destination 3" (2006), or the medallion in the movie "Indiana Jones - Raiders of the Lost Ark" (1981).

(5381) Sekhmet, talisman of peace

(5381) Sekhmet is an aten asteroid discovered in May of 1991. A satellite was discovered in May of 2003. It has a perihelion of 0.7 AU and an aphelion of 1.2 AU (orbit between Venus and Earth-Mars).

"Brother Bear" (2003)

Egyptian mythology

Ra deceived Sekhmet adding red colouring in the beer, so that it resembled blood. Sekhmet, after becoming drank and falling down incapacitated, gived up the intention of killing humanity.

From an astrological stand point, (5381) Sekhmet is not at all related with drugs that cancel will, but with material objects that symbolize peace or promote union, like the necklaces in the movies "Brother Bear" (2003), "Whale Rider" (2002), "Witch" (2001, 2003) and "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl" (2003), or the Book of Peace in the movie "Sinbad and the Legend of the Seven Seas" (2003).

"Katmandú" (2011)

(2340) Hathor, stone inscription

(2340) Hathor is an aten asteroid discovered in October of 1976 and rediscovered in 1981. It has a perihelion of 0.5 AU and an aphelion of 1.2 AU (orbit between Mercury and Earth-Mars).

(2340) Hathor is related with information in text format (Mercury) that is print in a physical support (Earth), like the stone and medallion inscription in the movie "Indiana Jones and the Lost Arc" (1981) or the '666' mark of the devil in the movie "The Omen" (1976). More usual examples are books, pamphlet or a curriculum.