Basics
Class: BB-type cubewano
Location: Kuiper belt
Orbit length (approx): 275.65 years
Discovered: 31st March 2005, 06:13 UTC, from Palomar Observatory, CA, by Michael E. Brown, Chad A. Trujillo and David Rabinowitz
Notes: Possibly a dwarf planet. Has a moon, Actaea.
Events at time of discovery:
- September 22 – Experts and officials from Interpol and 19 countries met Tuesday in Burkina Faso to elaborate a strategy to combat terrorism and crime in Africa.
- – West Sulawesi is established as the 33rd province of Indonesia.
- – Brazil, Germany, India, and Japan announce in a joint statement that have agreed work together on a plan for reforming the United Nations, including securing a permanent seat or seats on the UN Security Council for at least one of the four nations.
- – Ireland’s telecommunications regulator, ComReg, announces that, starting on October 4, it will suspend direct-dial telephone services to thirteen island nations and dependencies, in order to counter telephone dialer scams which have cost some customers thousands of euros.
- – Death of Edward Larrabee Barnes, 89, American architect
- – Death of Winston Cenac, 79, Saint Lucian civil servant and politician
- – Death of Pete Schoening, 77, American mountaineer
- – Death of Alex Wayman, 83, American tibetologist and indologist
Naming information
Name origin: Roman Goddess of salt water and wife of Neptune.
Mythology: Salacia was the personification of the calm and sunlit aspect of the sea (although she may also have represented the gushing and overbearing waters). Name means “the salty one”.
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| Ancient Roman mosaic showing Neptune and Salacia dating from 1st century CE, from Herculaneum, a town in modern-day Ercolano, Campania, Italy. Image by AlMare. |
Astrological data
Discovery degree: 13+ Pisces
Discovery Sabian: A Lady Wrapped in a Large Stole of Fox Fur
Discovery nodal signature: Capricorn–Cancer
Estimated orbital resonances: Uranus 4:13, Neptune 3:5, Pluto 9:10
Discovery chart details: First quarter phase chart with stellium in Virgo including Sun-Jupiter conjunction. Saturn on IC and Chiron-Nessus on MC. Mercury was sesquiquadrate the North Node, opposite Vesta and trine Sedna. Mars sesquiquadrate Neptune and semi-sextile Pallas. Ceres sextile Saturn and trine Nessus; Pluto trine and Chiron square Eris; Pluto quincunx and Vesta sextile Sedna.
Summary and references
Meanings offered so far include erotic fascination, interest or activity[1], smooth-flowing, fun, brightness, persuasion or reassurance[2], social discrimination that works “like a computing firewall” and enforcing rules[3], provocative desire or lust[4], determination, ability to work with the unseen, avoiding confrontation or commitment[5].
References:
1) Alex Miller: Salacia 120347
2) Mark Andrew Holmes: Salacia
3) Amable: (120347) Salacia
4) Kirsti Melto: New Moon in Aries – April 05, 2019
5) Philip Sedgwick: New Dwarf Planets, Eris, Sedna, Centaurs & More
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| Discovery chart for (120347) Salacia: 22nd September 2004, 03:30 UTC, Palomar Observatory, CA. |