Basics
Class: Ch/PD-type asteroid
Location: Main belt
Orbit length (approx): 4.41 years
Discovered: 21st September 1893, 00:52 UTC, from Nice, France, by Auguste Charlois
Notes: Large asteroid of about 91km mean radius.
Events at time of discovery:
- September 21 – Brothers Charles and Frank Duryea drive the first gasoline-powered motorcar in America, on public roads in Springfield, Massachusetts.
- September 23 – The Baháʼí Faith is first publicly mentioned in the United States, at the World Parliament of Religions.
- September 27 – The World Parliament of Religions holds its closing meeting in Chicago, IL.
Naming information
Name origin: Campania, a region of south-west Italy. Occupied by several Italic tribes since the beginning of the 1st millennium BCE. The Etruscans and Greeks established colonies in the Campanian Plains and in Naples respectively, before it became part of the Roman republic by the end of the 4th century BCE. Naples, with its Greek language and customs, made the area an early centre of Hellenistic culture for the Romans.
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| Ruins of Aeclanum, a Roman town in Irpinia district; now Avellino, Campania. Photo by DerBorg. |
Astrological data
Discovery degree: 23+ Aries
Discovery Sabian: Blown Inward By the Wind, the Curtains of an Open Window take The Shape of a Cornucopia
Discovery nodal signature: Libra–Taurus
Estimated orbital resonances: Ceres 20:19, Jupiter 8:3, Saturn 20:3, Uranus 19:1
Discovery chart details: First quarter phase with Asbolus rising. Campania was conjunct Pholus on the MC, both quincunx Mars. Stellia in Virgo and Gemini; Finger of the World between Venus, Eris and Asbolus. Moon opposite Pallas; Sun-Mercury quincunx Nessus. Ceres trine and Eris semi-sextile the North Node. Mars semi-square Uranus; Pallas sextile Jupiter; Saturn trine Neptune, sesquiquadrate Nessus and square Chariklo. Chariklo quincunx Neptune and trine Chiron.
Summary
Likely refers to commonalities within the human condition and the cultivation of universal goodwill; possibly also shortening distances, spiritual potency and divine inspiration.
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| Discovery chart for (377) Campania: 21st September 1893, 00:52 UTC, Nice, France. |