Basics
Class: X-type asteroid
Location: Main belt
Orbit length (approx): 4.53 years
Discovered: 8th February 1913, 01:49 UTC, from Winchester, MA, by Joel Hastings Metcalf
Notes: Mean radius approx 53km.
Events at time of discovery:
- February 4 – Birth of Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist
- February 6 – Birth of Mary Leakey, British anthropologist
- February 8 – For the first time in more than 110 years, an incumbent U.S. President personally spoke before a house of the U.S. Congress. U.S. President William Howard Taft appeared before a session of the Senate to deliver a eulogy for the late Vice-President, James S. Sherman.
- – The U.S. and Nicaragua signed the Wertzel-Chamorro Treaty, with the U.S. paying $3 million to Nicaragua for the option to build a canal across the nation to link the Atlantic and Pacific.
- – Explorer Douglas Mawson, the last surviving member of a three-person party of explorers on the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, made it back to the expedition’s base at Cape Denison. Mawson, who had suffered frostbite and illness during his trek, was informed upon his arrival that the expedition ship Aurora had departed a few hours earlier, and that another ship would not relieve the base for another year.
- – Birth of Betty Field, American actress
- February 10 – Birth of Douglas Slocombe, British cinematographer
Naming information
Name origin: Mandeville is the capital and largest town in the parish of Manchester in Middlesex, Jamaica. It was laid out in 1816, and named after Viscount Mandeville, the eldest son of the Duke of Manchester, who was then governor of Jamaica. Asteroid naming seems to have been in honour of Edward Charles Pickering (1846-1919), who observed in Mandeville according to Schmadel.
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| Detail of a panorama of Mandeville, Jamaica, looking north. Photo by Op. Deo. |
Astrological data
Discovery degree: 1+ Virgo
Discovery Sabian: A Large White Cross Dominates the Landscape
Discovery nodal signature: Leo–Aquarius
Estimated orbital resonances: Mercury 1:19, Earth 2:9, Mars 7:15, Jupiter 13:5, Saturn 13:2
Discovery chart details: New phase chart with Nodes across horizontal axis and Vesta on IC. Stellium in Aquarius. Moon conjunct Chiron and sextile Jupiter; Moon-Chiron sesquiquadrate Neptune. Sun semi-square Vesta and North Node; Juno-Uranus sextile and Vesta square North Node. Mercury semi-square Nessus. Ceres-Pholus trine Neptune.
Summary
Correspondences suggest humanity, empathy, courage, and the trial of these that brings essential matters to the fore and bypasses anything less significant; an outstanding event or individual changing the course of the species; unstinting devotion or rectitude.
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| Discovery chart for (739) Mandeville: 8th February 1913, 01:49 UTC, Winchester, MA. |