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Gaza: some resources

I run this blog because, for some years now, I have studied and worked with astrology. I, and other people I know well, can testify to its efficacy in providing wisdom and support in matters both individual and collective. There comes a point, however, where anything but raw truth, spoken in the plainest of terms, ceases to have any meaning. With this in mind, I have created the present post as a resource page for information on Gaza.

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Orbit viewer showing Echeclus' position at the time of discovery, from the JPL Small-Body Database. Echeclus' orbit is around 35 years, between those of Saturn and Uranus, and somewhat inclined.
Centaurs, Focus On, Virgo discovery

Focus On: (60558) Echeclus

Name origin: Centaur in Greek myth. Along with fellow centaurs, Ekheklos attended the Lapith king Pirithous’ wedding and was killed by Ampyx, who had thrust his lance that lacked its point into Ekheklos’ face. Name may mean ‘sticky’ or ‘glutinous’.

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Detail of the Judges of the Dead, Rhadamanthys, Minos and Aeakos, from the name vase of the Underworld Painter, ca. 330-310 BCE.
Focus On, Kuiper Belt objects, Libra discovery, Trans-Neptunian objects

Focus On: (38083) Rhadamanthus

Name origin: Greek son of Zeus and Europa. Because of his just and upright life, after death Rhadamanthus was appointed a judge of the dead and the ruler of Elysium, a blissfully beautiful area of the Underworld where those favoured by the gods spent their life after death.

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Screenshot of orbit viewer showing the position of (8405) Asbolus at the time of discovery, from JPL's Small Body Database.
Centaurs, Focus On, Libra discovery

Focus On: (8405) Asbolus

sbolos was a diviner who read omens in the flight of birds, and who predicted the battle with the Lapiths. He eventually caused the fight with Herakles (by bringing the centaurs when he saw Herakles’ wine opened), and thus was indirectly responsible for the deaths of Pholus and Chiron.

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Detail of a studio portrait photograph of Venetia Burney, aged 11, around the time she named Pluto (crop).
Aries discovery, Asteroids, Focus On, Inner main belt objects, Main belt objects

Focus On: (6235) Burney

Name origin: Venetia Phair (née Burney), who at age 11 was the first to suggest the name Pluto when said planet was discovered. She studied mathematics and became an accountant, and later a teacher.

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