Saturday, 21 March 2015

(4179) Toutatis, transition between peace and war, and vice versa

(4179) Toutatis is an apollo asteroid discovered in January of 1989. There are prediscovery images back to July of 1988 and May of 1976. It was spotted without being identified in February of 1934.
 
The orbit is located between the zone of orbital piercing from Earth-Moon system toward Venus, and the Hilda zone. It has a perihelion of 0.93 AU and an aphelion of 4.12 AU. The semimajor axis is at 2.53 AU. It has an orbital period of 4 years and 10 days. It has an inclination of 0.4º. It has a diameter of about 5.4 km.

In September of 2004, its proximity to Earth was only 0.0104 AU (4 lunar distancias). Photometric observations were made in the years 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004 and 2008.


In December of 2012, the Chinese lunar probe made a flyby of (4179) Toutatis, taking pictures at a distance of 3.2 km. 

Orbital resonance:
7:15 with Mars (99.9%)
22:3 with Saturn (99.6%)
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8:7 with Ceres-Pallas (99.9%)
9:10 with Vesta (99.9%)
13:12 with Juno (99.9%)
18:13 with Hygiea (99.9%)
11:7 with Cybele (99.7%)
8:7 with Herculina (99.7%)
 


Celtic mythology

Tutatis (also called Teutates), was a male deity of the Gauls pantheon, Ombudsman, legislator, guardian and referee.

In the comic "Asterix the Gaul" (Uderzo and Goscinny, 1959), the story takes place around the year 50 BC in a fictitious village, northwest of Gaul, which still has not been conquered by the Rome of Julius Caesar.


The Tutatis god is one of the most acclaimed by the Gauls Asterix and Obelix each time the opportunity to fight against the Roman guards is presented.

(4179) Toutatis is related with the transition between peace and war, and vice versa. The conflict is intuited well in advance as it is gradually increasing (7:15 resonance with Mars), like in the movie "I-Robot" (2004).

Tuesday, 10 March 2015

109P/Swift-Tuttle, intense emotion while seeing a wonderful sensory stimulus

109P Swift-Tuttle is a comet of the scattered disc discovered in July of 1862. There are prediscovery images back to July of 1737. It reached the perihelion in December of 1992.

The orbit is between the Earth-Moon system and the beginning of the scattered disc, with an orbital piercing from the Earth-Moon system toward Venus. It has a perihelion of 0.95 AU and an aphelion of 51.98 AU. The semimajor axis is at 26.47 AU. It has an orbital period of 136 years. It has an inclination of 113.4º


109P/Swift-Tuttle is the comet that generates the meteor shower known as Perseid, with a peak between the 11th and 13th day of August each year.

Orbital resonance:
20:11 with Pluto (99.8%)  *[11:6
with Pluto (99.3%); 9:5 with Pluto (98.8%)]

109P/Swift-Tuttle combines the sensory perception of Earth-Moon system with the emotional awareness of the beginning of the scattered disc. It is related with the intense emotion that is generated by wonderful sensory stimulus, such as a shooting star.

"Jurassic Park" (1993)

Sunday, 1 March 2015

(2254) Requiem, recognize in time the extinction of the available resources

(2254) Requiem is a main belt asteroid discovered in August of 1977. There are prediscovery images back to September of 1941 and October of 1916. It was spotted without being identified in August of 1941, September of 1959, August of 1966, April of 1972, May of 1976 and October of 1977.

The orbit is located at the inner main belt. It has a perihelion of 1.99 AU and an aphelion of 2.69 AU. The semimajor axis is at 2.34 AU. It has an orbital period of 3 years and 215 days. It has an inclination of 5.0º.


Orbital resonance:
11:21 with Mars (99.9%)
5:18  with Earth-Moon (99.7%)
 
1:15 with Mercury (99.3%)
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14:9 with Hygiea (99.8%)
9:7 with Herculina (99.9%)



Word in Latin

Requiem is a word in Latin that means 'rest' and it is almost exclusively associated to any form of giving a farewell to the deceased. The name is dedicated to the mother of the discoverer, who died on the same day that it was discovered the asteroid.
 

(2254) Requiem is related with the ability to recognize in time the extinction of the source of nutrition or the available resources. The causes of the reduction or extinction of the resources may be due the end of the season, natural disasters or uncontrolled consumption.

"Dinosaurs" (1972)

Tuesday, 24 February 2015

(42) Isis, harvesting

(42) Isis is a main belt asteroid discovered in May of 1856. It was spotted without being identified in April of 1939 and February of 1950.

The orbit is located in the inner main belt. It has a perihelion of 1.90 AU and an aphelion of 2.98 AU. The semimajor axis is at 2.44 AU. It has an orbital period of 3 years and 299 days. It has an inclination of 8.5º. It has a diameter of about 103 km.


Photometric observations were made in July of 2000. A star occultation ocurred in May of 2011.

Orbital resonance:
8:7 with Juno (99.9%)
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9:8
with Eunomia (99.9%)
7:5
with Interamnia (99.9%)
17:10
with Sylvia (99.9%)
17:13
with Psyche (99.9%)


Egyptian mythology

Thanks to its magical and divinatory powers, the goddess Isis collected and reconstructed all the pieces of the inert body of Osiris, which Set had hidden in various locations after he killed him.    

In the context of the main belt, the mythology of Isis is compatible with the collection processes that are carried out in nature, as for example the collection of nectar and food of bees and ants, or the construction of nests and burrows of birds and beavers; and whom in agriculture, are equivalent to harvesting.

(42) Isis is related with all kinds of tasks of collection, as for example the collection of signatures in the movie "Erin Brokovich" (2000).

Friday, 20 February 2015

(318) Magdalena, affinity and commitment toward a group or collective cause

(318) Magdalena is a main belt asteroid discovered in September of 1891.

The orbit is in the outer region of the main belt. It has a perihelion of 2.92 AU and an aphelion of 3.46 AU. The semimajor axis is at 3.19 AU. It has an orbital period of 5 years and 259 days. It has an inclination of 10.6º. It has a diameter of about 105 km.


Photometric observation were made in April of 2012. There were star occultation in October of 2000 and June of 2005.

Orbital resonance:
13:17 with Juno (99.9%)
7:11 with Vesta (99.8%)
10:9 with Cybele (99.9%)



New Testament

Mary Magdalene was a distinguished disciple of Jesus of Nazareth. In the New Testament is described that housed and provided material support to Jesus and his disciples during his preaching in Galilee.

During the entry of Uranus in Pisces appeared various revolutionary ideologies on christianity, among which is the book "The Davinci Code" (Dan Brown, 2003), in which is expound the possibility that Jesus of Nazareth and Mary Magdalene had lived and had children together.


(318) Magdalena is related with a commitment to a group or collective cause, toward which it is feelt a deep affinity (13:17 resonance with Juno).

The inner change in direction occurs after a recognition from small signs or miracles in everyday life, which the attention had intuitively focused on (10:9 resonance with Cybele; 7:11 with Vesta).

(121) Hermione, ability to assessing the quality of the ongoing relationship to know if it is the definitive person

(121) Hermione is a main belt asteroid discovered in May of 1872. It was spotted without being identified in november of 1970.

The orbit is located at the cybele zone. It has a perihelion of 2.98 AU and an aphelion of 3.91 AU. The semimajor axis is at 3.44 AU. It has an orbital period of 6 years and 149 days. It has an inclination of   7.5º.


"The Age of Adaline" (2015)
 Orbital resonance:
5:6 with Interamnia (99.9%)



Greek mythology

Hermione was the daughter of the king Menelaus and his wife, Helen of Troy. When he was nine years old, before Helena leave with Paris, his grandfather promised him with his cousin Orestes. But during the Trojan War, his father preferred marrying her with Neoptólemo, son of Achilles.

Shortly after settling into the domestic life, however, conflict arose between Hermione and Andromache, the concubine of Neoptolemus. Hermione blamed Andromache for her inability to become pregnant, claiming that the concubine was casting spells on her to keep her barren. To settle doubts, Neoptólemo went to the oracle of Delphi, where he found coincidentally with Orestes. Orestes came out victorious in the facing to death and married Hermíone, with whom he had a son, Tisámeno.

"The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1" (2011)

(121) Hermione has the ability to assess the quality of the ongoing relationship to know if it is the definitive person, whose compatibility gives very satisfactory results in comparison with the previous relationships, like in the movie "The Age of Adaline" (2015).
 
"Safe Heaven" (2013)

Blake Lively, actress of the movie "The Age of Adaline" (2015), has Hermione in Scorpio conjunct Pluto, both in the 5th & 6th Houses of the Moon-Node Horoscope.

Nicholas Spark, writer of the book "Safe Heave" (2010), has Hermione in Leo in binovile (80º) with the Crossing Point of the Age Progressions (Signs Horoscope / Moon-Node Horoscope) in Scorpio. Hermione is in opposition to Venus in Aquarius, and in quincunx with Saturn in Pisces, wich is in sextile with the Sun in Capricorn.