Basics
Class: Sednoid
Location: ETNO
Orbit length (approx): 51787.68 years
Discovered: 13th October 2015, 06:08 UTC, from Mauna Kea Observatories, HI, by David J. Tholen, Chadwick A. Trujillo and Scott S. Sheppard
Notes: Mean radius about 110 km. Reaches perihelion approximately 2078.
Events at time of discovery:
- October 13 – Iran’s Islamic Consultative Assembly approves the deal on its nuclear program agreed with six world powers.
- – The Dutch Safety Board releases their final report into the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17) disaster that concludes that the flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was shot-down by a Russian-made Buk missile system on 17 July 2014 killing 298 people.
- – Burkina Faso’s presidential and parliamentary elections are deferred to November 29 due to a recent coup.
- – Jamaican author Marlon James wins the 2015 Man Booker Prize for his novel A Brief History of Seven Killings, inspired by the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in the 1970s.
- – Anheuser-Busch InBev agrees to buy its main rival SABMiller for £68 billion in the biggest beer deal ever.
- – Death of: Rosalyn Baxandall, 76, American historian and feminist activist; Guenther Boden, 80, German-born American endocrinologist; Duncan Druce, 76, English composer and musicologist; Sue Lloyd-Roberts, 64, British television journalist; K. Velayudam, 65, Sri Lankan politician and trade unionist; Michael John Wise, 97, British geographer.
Naming information
Name origin: Hawai’ian language name meaning ‘it flies until land appears’ (lele ‘to fly’ + ā ‘until’ + kū ‘to appear’ + honua ‘land’). From JPL: “Leleākūhonua is a life form mentioned in the Hawaiian creation chant, the Kumulipo. The name compares the orbit to the flight of migratory birds and evokes a yearning to be near Earth.”
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| A Pacific golden plover photographed at the Bering Land Bridge National Preserve, AK, by Mark Johnson. |
Astrological data
Discovery degree: 6+ Aries
Discovery Sabian: A Man Succeeds in Expressing Himself Simultaneously in Two Realms
Discovery nodal signature: Aquarius–Leo
Discovery chart details: New phase chart with Sedna rising and Saturn descending. Stellia in Virgo and Libra; Nessus quincunx North Node. Moon sesquiquadrate Neptune, opposite Eris and sextile Pholus; Sun semi-square Venus. Mercury sextile Saturn and opposite Vesta; Venus sesquiquadrate Uranus; Mars square Asbolus. Jupiter trine Pluto and sesquiquadrate Ceres; Vesta trine Saturn; Chiron semi-sextile Uranus. Neptune semi-square Eris; Juno sesquiquadrate Sedna.
Summary and references
Interpretations offered so far include: forward motion, emotional strength facilitating trauma recovery[1]; a prompt for swifter action on climate change[2]; a long journey, or sustained effort or project[3]; integration of old and new in various senses, inclusivity, abundance versus scarcity, appreciating innovation, rigidity or disruptiveness[4]. Zane Stein has gathered several additional meanings, among which are soul consciousness, interdependence and individuality, migration and movement, navigation systems, multiple dimensions, long-term perspectives, transcending conditioning, right alignment, contract of care, practical spirituality, infinite potential, source energy[5].
References:
1) Amable: Leleākūhonua
2) Kirsti Melto: Full Moon in Aries – October 01, 2020
3) Sue Kientz: Meet The Dwarfs
4) Philip Sedgwick: New Dwarf Planets, Eris, Sedna, Centaurs & More
5) Zane Stein: Leleākūhonua
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| Discovery chart for (541132) Leleākūhonua: 13th October 2015, 06:08 UTC, Mauna Kea Observatories, HI. The object is not depicted. |