Basics
Class: S-type asteroid
Location: Inner main belt, Flora family
Orbit length (approx): 3.32 years
Discovered: 30th August 1918, 23:10 UTC, from Heidelberg, Germany, by Max Wolf
Events at time of discovery:
- August 25 – Birth of Leonard Bernstein, American composer, conductor
- August 26 – Birth of Katherine Johnson, African-American physicist, space scientist and mathematician
- – Birth of Maria Isaura Pereira de Queiróz, Brazilian sociologist
- August 29 – Birth of Clemens C. J. Roothaan, Dutch physicist
- August 30 – Around 20,000 London police officers went on strike for increased pay and union recognition.
- – Vladimir Lenin was shot and wounded by Fanny Kaplan in Moscow.
- – The Arab Bureau ceased publication of the Arab Bulletin.
- August 31 – Birth of Alan Jay Lerner, American lyricist, librettist
Naming information
Name origin: Ernst Heinrich Bruns (1848-1919), a German mathematician and astronomer, who also contributed to the development of the field of theoretical geodesy (measurement of the Earth’s relative geometry, gravity and orientation over time). He was mainly engaged in developing the theoretical side of Earth’s shape. Higher geodesy (a sub-field of geodesy concerned with measuring the earth on a global scale) was based on theories developed by Bruns, including “Bruns’ polyhedron”, envisioned as a world-spanning net. The modern-day GPS project has now brought this concept to life.
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| Heinrich Bruns (1848-1919), German mathematician and astronomer. Detail of portrait by painter Anton Eduard Klamroth. |
Astrological data
Discovery degree: 17+ Pisces
Discovery Sabian: In a Gigantic Tent, Villagers Witness a Spectacular Performance
Discovery nodal signature: Scorpio–Cancer
Estimated orbital resonances: Earth 3:10, Mars 9:14, Ceres 7:5, Jupiter 18:5
Discovery chart details: Last quarter phase chart with Moon, Juno and Pluto rising. Stellium in Cancer. Sun sextile Juno-Pluto and square Pholus; Mercury trine Chariklo; Mars trine Jupiter, square Neptune and quincunx Nessus. Jupiter sesquiquadrate Uranus. Saturn semi-square Pluto and Asbolus. Nessus trine Neptune; Ceres sesquiquadrate Chariklo; Pallas sextile Asbolus.
Summary and references
May relate to knowledge (particularly scientific) and its transmission; proactive learning; a decisive movement towards justice; intelligence or communication skills that lead to improvements and/or solve ongoing problems; generational growth.
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| Discovery chart for (901) Brunsia: 30th August 1918, 23:10 UTC, Heidelberg, Germany. The asteroid is not depicted. |