Basics
Class: CX-type asteroid
Location: Main belt
Orbit length (approx): 4.65 years
Discovered: 10th October 1920, 23:11 UTC, from Vienna, Austria, by Johann Palisa
Notes: Background asteroid of approximately 18km diameter.
Events at time of discovery:
- October 10 – Carinthian Plebiscite: A large part of Kärnten Province votes to remain part of Austria, rather than join Yugoslavia, by a 59-41 margin.
- – Bill Wambsganss of the Cleveland Indians made an unassisted triple play, one of only 15 MLB players to tag out three members of the opposing team in one at-bat, and the only player to do so in the World Series. (Your humble post author confesses they have no idea what any of that means.)
- – Birth of Gail Halvorsen, American Air Force pilot
- – Birth of Noah Keen, American actor
Naming information
Name origin: Family of Australian-British professor Gilbert Murray (1866-1957), who helped Austria recover from World War I in 1920. He was an outstanding scholar of Ancient Greek literature, language and culture. Involved in the League of Nations from 1916, he was also president of the Ethical Union (now Humanists UK) in 1929 and 1930, and a founder of Oxfam.
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| Gilbert Murray (1866-1957); photograph from 1900, artist unknown, currently at the University of Glasgow. |
Astrological data
Discovery degree: 11+ Taurus
Discovery Sabian: A Young Couple Window-Shopping
Discovery nodal signature: Gemini–Scorpio
Estimated orbital resonances: Venus 2:15, Earth 3:14, Mars 6:13, Ceres 1:1, Jupiter 18:7, Saturn 19:3, Chiron 11:1, Uranus 18:1
Discovery chart details: Balsamic chart with Neptune rising, Pallas on MC and Asbolus on IC. Finger of the World between Venus, Neptune and Eris. Vesta sextile and Ceres trine North Node. Moon semi-square Juno; Sun sesquiquadrate Uranus; Mercury trine Ceres and Pluto and quincunx Chiron; Venus quincunx Sedna. Jupiter sextile Pluto, sesquiquadrate Pallas and quincunx Nessus; Juno sextile Saturn. Neptune trine Sedna and Pholus; Nessus square Pluto; Ceres square Chiron.
Summary
May signify experiencing the divine through beauty in its multiple forms, or actively looking for the sacred; the instinctive wisdom born of collective knowledge; spiritual pacifism and egalitarianism; love as a doorway into compassion.
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| Discovery chart for (941) Murray: 10th October 1920, 23:11 UTC, Vienna, Austria. |