Basics
Class: C-type asteroid
Location: Outer main belt
Orbit length (approx): 5.20 years
Discovered: 19th April 1855 (time unknown), from Düsseldorf, Germany, by Robert Luther
Notes: Relatively chaotic orbit.
Events at time of discovery:
- April 27 – Birth of Caroline Rémy de Guebhard, French feminist
- May 10 – Birth of Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri, Bengali yogi, author of The Holy Science
- May 15 – The Exposition Universelle (an early World’s fair) officially opens in Paris, France.
- May 17 – Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, is dedicated in New York City, NY.
- June 15 – Stamp duty is removed from British newspapers, creating mass media in the United Kingdom.
Naming information
Name origin: Greek sea goddess who came to the aid of sailors in distress.
Mythology: Leukothea was born a mortal princess named Ino. Along with Athamas, her husband, she incurred the wrath of Hera for fostering the infant Dionysos. As punishment, Hera drove Athamas into a murderous rage, in which he killed his eldest child. Ino took the other, and leapt off a cliff into the sea. Both became sea gods and were renamed Leukothea (the White Goddess) and Palaimon. Leukothea later aided Odysseus in a fight for survival while shipwrecked.
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| Sculpture depicting the head of Leucothea from Temple A in the sanctuary at Pyrgi (Santa Severa), the ancient port of Caere (Cerveteri), c. 350 BCE; now preserved at the Museo nazionale etrusco di Villa Giulia. Photo by Olivier. |
Astrological data
Discovery degree: 3+ Libra
Discovery Sabian: Around a Campfire a Group of Young People Sit in Spiritual Communion
Discovery nodal signature: Aries–Virgo
Estimated orbital resonances: Venus 2:17, Mars 7:17, Ceres 8:9, Jupiter 16:7, Saturn 17:3
Discovery chart details: Noon. Leukothea was in a Yod with Juno and Chariklo-Pluto. Stellia in Aries and Taurus; Venus, Chiron and Sedna in minor grand trine. Saturn was semi-sextile and Sedna semi-square the North Node. Mars sextile Jupiter; Saturn sesquiquadrate and Pallas semi-square Chiron. Uranus semi-square Nessus. Neptune semi-square Chariklo-Pluto.
Summary and references
May signify escape or flight from challenging situations, sacrifice, charity or disturbed behaviour[1]; correspondences suggest the act of fixing or combining destinies and its consequences, transmutation, spiritual community or fraught decisions.
References:
1) Mark Andrew Holmes: Leukothea
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| Noon discovery chart for (35) Leukothea: 19th April 1855, Düsseldorf, Germany. |