Focus On: (368) Haidea

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Basics

Class: D-type asteroid
Location: Outer main belt
Orbit length (approx): 5.39 years
Discovered: 19th May 1893 (time unknown), from Nice, France, by Auguste Charlois
Notes: Mean radius of approximately 69.6km. The Tagish Lake meteorite, which fell on 18th January 2000, is believed to derive from this asteroid.
Events at time of discovery:

  • May 9 – Edison’s 1.5-inch system of Kinetoscope is first demonstrated in public, at the Brooklyn Institute.
  • May 16 – Birth of Clement Martyn Doke, South African linguist
  • May 23 – Gandhi arrives in South Africa, where he will live until 1914, lead non-violent protests on behalf of Indian immigrants in the South African Republic (Transvaal), and develop a deeper experience of such activities.
  • May 25 – Birth of Ernest Stoneman, American country music artist

Naming information

Name origin: Unknown. There is a 19th century comic opera, Haydée, featuring the titular character as a slave girl who is really a princess and ultimately marries her beloved. A Haidee was also associated with the fictional libertine Don Juan, and a Haydée appears in The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas père (as another slave who eventually marries her love, the titular Count).

1848 illustration by Victor Coindre for Daniel Auber's opera Haydée. The drawing features three figures, apparently actors in costume, amid a partially realised background. On the left, a young white woman in an opulent pink dress with blonde hair faces to the right. Next to her, near the centre, is a young white woman in a less obviously wealthy gown, with dark hair, holding a lute. At right is a white man in regal damask and pale garments, partly reclined on a chaise longue. Handwritten notes at the base of the illustration likely give the actors' names and roles.
1848 illustration by Victor Coindre for Daniel Auber’s opera Haydée.

Astrological data

Discovery degree: 2+ Sagittarius
Discovery Sabian: Two Men Playing Chess
Discovery nodal signature: Scorpio–Taurus
Estimated orbital resonances: Earth 3:16, Mars 2:5, Ceres 6:7, Jupiter 11:5, Saturn 11:2, Chiron 19:2
Discovery chart details: Noon chart. Haidea semi-square Chariklo. Chiron trine the North Node; Pallas sesquiquadrate Saturn, Saturn opposite Sedna, Ceres sextile Juno, Pallas semi-square Sedna and sextile Eris. Stellia in Taurus-Gemini. Not a huge number of aspects under one degree.

Summary

May signify learning from or overcoming obstacles, attaining fame or influence, applied wisdom, adventure, controlled emotional responses (or use of emotion as a power source).

Noon discovery chart for (368) Haidea: 19th May 1893, Nice, France. The asteroid is not depicted.
Noon discovery chart for (368) Haidea: 19th May 1893, Nice, France. The asteroid is not depicted.
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