Basics
Class: G-type asteroid
Location: Outer main belt
Orbit length (approx): 5.53 years
Discovered: 17th February 1873 (time unknown), at Litchfield Observatory, Clinton, NY, by Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters
Notes: Large quadruple system with three minor-planet moons.
Events at time of discovery:
- February 12 – The Coinage Act of 1873 in the United States is signed into law. It ends bimetallism in the U.S., and places the country on the gold standard.
- February 13 – Birth of Feodor Chaliapin, Russian bass opera singer
- – Birth of Red Wing, Native American silent film actress
- February 15 – Birth of Hans von Euler-Chelpin, German-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- February 19 – Birth of Louis Feuillade, French film director
- February 20 – The University of California opens its first medical school in San Francisco.
Naming information
Name origin: Greek mythical daughter of Agamemnon and Klytaemnestra.
Mythology: After their mother murders their father, Elektra and her brother Orestes plot to kill Klytaemnestra and her lover Aegisthus in revenge, on the orders of the Delphic Oracle. Following Orestes’ pursuit by the Furies and his escape, in some accounts Elektra marries his friend Pylades.
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| Orestes, Elektra and Hermes at the tomb of Agamemnon. Lucanian red-figure pelike dated c. 380-370 BCE, by the Choephoroi Painter. Photo by Bibi Saint-Pol. |
Astrological data
Discovery degree: 27+ Leo
Discovery Sabian: Many Little Birds on a Limb of a Big Tree
Discovery nodal signature: Leo–Aquarius
Estimated orbital resonances: Venus 1:9, Earth 2:11, Mars 5:13, Ceres 5:6, Jupiter 13:6, Saturn 16:3
Discovery chart details: Noon. Elektra was square the Nodes, sesquiquadrate Chiron, and formed a Yod with Saturn and Asbolus. Saturn was trine and Asbolus semi-sextile the North Node. Mercury opposite Jupiter; Venus sextile Pholus; Mars square Pallas; Jupiter sesquiquadrate Chiron. Saturn semi-square Eris. Neptune quincunx Nessus; Chiron semi-sextile Eris and trine Chariklo. Pholus semi-square Sedna.
Summary and references
May represent unpredictability, persuasive power, intelligence, mourning, surviving, unorthodox action, resistance to oppression[1], or self-protective postures[2].
References:
1) TAKE Astrology: Asteroids in Astrology
2) Amable: (130) Elektra
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| Noon discovery chart for (130) Elektra: 17th February 1873, Clinton, NY. |