Basics
Class: Ch-type asteroid
Location: Main belt, Adeona family
Orbit length (approx): 4.37 years
Discovered: 4th June 1875, 07:42 UTC, at Litchfield Observatory, Clinton, NY, by Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters
Notes: Approximately 150 km in diameter, located in intermediate asteroid belt. Its surface is very dark.
Events at time of discovery:
- June 4 – Two American colleges play each other in arguably the first game of college football: Tufts University and Harvard University at Jarvis Field in Cambridge, MA.
- – Birth of Albert E. Smith, English stage magician, film director and producer
- June 6 – Birth of J. Farrell MacDonald, American character actor, film director
- – Birth of Thomas Mann, German novelist, Nobel Prize laureate
Naming information
Name origin: One of a pair of Roman childhood goddesses, the other being Abeōna.
Mythology: Adeō in Latin means “approach”, and abeō means “go away from”, and these appear to be their domains. Adeōna is goddess of returning from somewhere, homecomings, safe return and bringing children home safely. Abeōna rules departures, and protected children during their first voyage away from their parents.
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| Terracotta figurine of a Gallo-Roman mother goddess suckling a toddler, from the 2nd or 3rd century CE; at the French National Archaeological Museum at Saint-Germain-en-Laye. Photo by Siren-Com. |
Astrological data
Discovery degree: 19+ Sagittarius
Discovery Sabian: In an Old-Fashioned Northern Village Men Cut the Ice of a Frozen Pond For Use During the Summer
Discovery nodal signature: Gemini–Sagittarius
Estimated orbital resonances: Mercury 1:18, Earth 3:13, Ceres 17:16, Jupiter 19:7
Discovery chart details: New phase; stellium in Taurus with all four Goddess asteroids in Cancer. Juno on IC squaring the Nodes. Sun semi-square Ceres and square Eris; Mercury sesquiquadrate Pholus; Venus sextile Eris. Mars trine Neptune and square Sedna. Jupiter quincunx Pluto; Saturn opposite Chariklo; Neptune semi-sextile Sedna. Pallas conjunct Vesta and semi-square Pluto. Chiron sesquiquadrate Nessus and trine Chariklo.
Summary
Along with the above mythological qualities, Adeona may represent nurture, caution versus risk, adventurousness and curiosity, awareness, completion, or wisdom gained from experience.
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| Discovery chart for (145) Adeona: 4th June 1875, 07:42 UTC, Clinton, NY. The asteroid is not depicted. |