Basics
Class: Asteroid
Location: Inner main belt, Flora family
Orbit length (approx): 3.33 years
Discovered: 5th June 1910, 23:09 UTC, from Heidelberg, Germany, by Joseph Helffrich
Notes: Diameter about 15km.
Events at time of discovery:
- June 2 – Birth of Annie Lee Cooper, American civil rights activist
- June 4 – Birth of Christopher Cockerell, British engineer, inventor of the Hovercraft
- June 5 – Jean-Baptiste Charcot and the crew of the Antarctic exploring ship Pourquoi-Pas returned to a hero’s welcome in France, during the same week Robert Scott and Roald Amundsen were beginning their expeditions to the South Pole.
- – The Nanyang industrial exposition (“Nanking Exposition”), an official world’s fair hosted by the Imperial government, opened in China.
Naming information
Name origin: Auravictrix is Latin for ‘victory against the wind’ (named for the first Schütte-Lanz zeppelin flights in 1911). The Schütte-Lanz company was an early competitor of the more famous airships built by Ferdinand von Zeppelin.
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| Image of the SL2 airship, the successor to the SL1, from the 1920 Lexikon der gesamten Technik. |
Astrological data
Discovery degree: 8+ Sagittarius
Discovery Sabian: A Mother Leads Her Small Child Step By Step Up A Steep Stairway
Discovery nodal signature: Gemini–Capricorn
Estimated orbital resonances: Earth 3:10, Mars 7:11, Ceres 11:8
Discovery chart details: Balsamic phase chart. Stellium in Taurus including retrograde Mercury conjunct North Node. Nessus in last degree of Pisces sextile both. Moon sextile Mars; Venus-Saturn sextile Chiron and trine Asbolus; Chiron sesquiquadrate Neptune; Pluto square Eris. Pallas sesquiquadrate Juno; Juno trine Eris; Chiron opposite Asbolus.
Summary
The Sabian symbol is evocative of guidance towards progress or a higher state of consciousness, embodied perhaps in a literal sense by the technological development after which this asteroid was named. May also indicate one forward step preparing the way for the next; the pursuit of excellence and its varied manifestations.
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| Discovery chart for (700) Auravictrix: 5th June 1910, 23:09 UTC, Heidelberg, Germany. The asteroid is not depicted. |