Basics
Class: G-type asteroid
Location: Main belt
Orbit length (approx): 4.13 years
Discovered: 2nd November 1850 (time unknown), from Naples Observatory, Italy, by Annibale de Gasparis
Notes: Spectral analysis of Egeria shows it to be unusually high in water content; by mass approximately 11 percent.
Events at time of discovery:
- October 1 – The University of Sydney (the oldest in Australia) is founded.
- October 28 – Delegate Edward Ralph May delivers a speech on behalf of African-American suffrage, to the Indiana Constitutional Convention.
- November 13 – Birth of Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish writer
Naming information
Name origin: Roman nymph, wife and counsellor of king Numa Pompilius
Mythology: Egeria imparted to her husband laws and rituals pertaining to ancient Roman religion. Her name is used as an eponym for a female advisor or counsellor. Egeria may predate Roman myth: she could have been of Italic origin in the sacred forest of Aricia in Latium, which was equally the grove of Diana Nemorensis; also home to a Manius Egerius, a male counterpart of Egeria. May have been based on the ancient Etruscan figure of Vegoia.
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| Detail of Egeria mourns Numa (1669) by Claude Lorrain. |
Astrological data
Discovery degree: 1+ Taurus
Discovery Sabian: An Electrical Storm
Discovery nodal signature: Taurus-Scorpio
Estimated orbital resonances: Mercury 1:17, Venus 3:20, Ceres 10:9, Jupiter 20:7
Discovery chart details: Egeria was close to Uranus conjunct Pluto in late Aries; also sextile Eris. Sun was square the Nodes, with Jupiter sextile and Chiron trine the North Node Chiron was also trine Chariklo. Sun sesquiquadrate Ceres.
Summary and references
May relate to wisdom and learning, foundations, visible or evident divine manifestation, love, natural power, prophecy[1].
References:1) Neptune's Aura Astrology: Asteroid Egeria 13
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| Noon discovery chart for (13) Egeria: 2nd November 1850, Naples Observatory, Italy. |
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