Basics
Class: S-type asteroid
Location: Outer main belt
Orbit length (approx): 5.23 years
Discovered: 6th January 1914 (time unknown), from Nice, France, by Joanny-Philippe Lagrula
Notes: Mean radius approx 16.8km.
Events at time of discovery:
- January 6 – Charles E. Merrill opened his brokerage firm Charles E. Merrill & Co. for business at 7 Wall Street in New York City.
- – Battle of Ojinaga: Pancho Villa signed a film deal with Harry Aitken, who had sent a film crew of 10 to the Ojinaga battle site to shoot footage of the fighting from the revolutionary army’s viewpoint. Aitken later had second thoughts about the contract.
- – The Professional Children’s School began admitting students interested in theater work in New York City.
- – Birth of Federico Caffè, Italian economist
- – Birth of Godfrey Edward Arnold, Austrian-American medical researcher in speech pathology
- – Birth of Kenneth Pitzer, American chemist
- – Birth of Fred Kilgour, American librarian, founder of the OCLC network
Naming information
Name origin: Brothers Auguste Marie (19 October 1862-10 April 1954) and Louis Jean Lumière (5 October 1864-6 June 1948), French pioneering manufacturers of photography equipment and early film production. Their screening on 22 March 1895 in Paris was likely the first presentation of projected film.
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| Portrait of the Lumière brothers c.1895; photographer unknown. |
Astrological data
Discovery degree: 4+ Leo
Discovery Sabian: Rock Formations Tower Over a Deep Canyon
Discovery nodal signature: Capricorn–Leo
Estimated orbital resonances: Venus 2:17, Mars 7:17, Ceres 7:8, Jupiter 9:4, Saturn 17:3, Uranus 16:1
Discovery chart details: Noon chart with stellium in Capricorn. Minor grand trine between Jupiter, Pholus and Eris. Lumière quincunx Mercury. Venus semi-sextile Uranus and sextile Vesta; Jupiter sesquiquadrate Saturn, opposite Neptune and semi-square Chiron. Saturn semi-square Neptune and square Chiron, quincunx Ceres and sextile Chariklo; Chiron sesquiquadrate and Pholus trine Neptune; Juno-Nessus square Pallas and Pluto; Ceres square Chariklo.
Summary
May represent realism versus imagery; inescapable truths, communication capacity or its reverse, the spread of wisdom and information (or misinformation), or matters that escalate quickly.
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| Noon discovery chart for (775) Lumière: 6th January 1914, Nice, France. The asteroid is not depicted. |