Basics
Class: Trans-Neptunian object
Location: Scattered disc
Orbit length (approx): 570.44 years
Discovered: 13th March 2010, 04:08 UTC, from Las Campanas Observatory, Atacama Region, Chile, by Andrzej Udalski, Scott Sheppard, Marcin Kubiak and Chad Trujillo
Notes: Diameter approx 470km; highly eccentric orbit.
Events at time of discovery:
- March 13 – At least 6 people, including three security personnel, die and more than 16 others are wounded after a suicide bomber tries to enter a government building, is stopped by police and detonates himself in Swat, Pakistan.
- – Peruvian President Alan García orders funding for a tsunami-warning system.
- – Taoiseach Brian Cowen announces his scheme that will allow senior citizen tourists aged 66 and above to travel free on Iarnród Éireann in the Republic of Ireland.
- – 450,000 are left without power in the Northeastern U.S. as high winds topple power lines and trees. A crane collapses at the Revel Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey, injuring one.
- – U.S. President Obama proposes sweeping changes to education law which would rework the No Child Left Behind program.
- – Death of: Jerry Adler, 91, American harmonicist; Sir Ian Axford, 76, New Zealand space scientist; Jean Ferrat, 79, French singer; Fouad Zakariyya, 82-83, Egyptian philosopher
Naming information
Name origin: Slavic goddess of the wilderness, forests and the hunt. The name was chosen in 2018 to mark the discovery taking place during the Polish Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment of Warsaw University, which was led by co-discoverer Andrzej Udalski. Dziewanna may mean ‘girl’, ‘young woman’, ‘maiden’ or ‘virgin’ – also possibly ‘wild’; she might be the Slavic version of Diana, though this is disputed. There is a folk tradition related to her involving the coming of spring/summer and the destruction of a figure representing death.
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| Close-up of the yellow flowers on a Verbascum thapsus (common mullein) plant, whose Polish name is Dziewanna. Photo by Forest & Kim Starr. |
Astrological data
Discovery degree: 27+ Libra
Discovery Sabian: A Man Becoming Aware of Spiritual Forces Surrounding and Assisting Him
Discovery nodal signature: Pisces–Virgo
Estimated orbital resonances: Pluto 7:16
Discovery chart details: Balsamic chart with Ceres rising and Jupiter on IC. Stellium in Pisces. Dziewanna was trine Chiron-Neptune, sesquiquadrate Jupiter and semi-sextile Chariklo. Nessus semi-sextile North Node. Moon semi-sextile Sun, semi-square Venus and square Pallas; Sun trine Pallas. Mercury sextile Sedna and semi-sextile Eris; Venus semi-square Sedna; Mars sesquiquadrate Pholus. Uranus semi-sextile Neptune and semi-square Asbolus; Chiron-Neptune square Chariklo; Vesta square Pallas.
Summary and references
Existing interpretations include: social intelligence applied to conflict resolution[1]; crucial or seemingly urgent issues, fate or fatalism, “emotional cold shower”, confrontation, condemnation or harsh judgment, patriarchy or conservatism causing wounded or repressed feminine identity, feeling cursed, becoming exceptional to survive and/or facing mundane opponents, misunderstanding, disappointment, fear of social isolation, chthonian forces, magic, agricultural traditions[2]; going one’s own way without concern for others’ responses[3]; strong sensitivity, pragmatism or laxness in emotional settings, suiting the reaction to the situation, hunting, forestry[4].
References:
1) Amable: (471143) Dziewanna
2) Benjamin Adamah: Dziewanna in astrology
3) Zane Stein: Dziewanna
4) Philip Sedgwick: New Dwarf Planets, Eris, Sedna, Centaurs & More
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| Discovery chart for (471143) Dziewanna: 13th March 2010, 04:08 UTC, Las Campanas Observatory, Atacama, Chile. The body is not depicted. |