Focus On: (1923) Osiris

Basics

Class: C-type asteroid
Location: Inner main belt
Orbit length (approx): 3.80 years
Discovered: 24th September 1960, 09:01 UTC, from Leiden, Netherlands, by Ingrid and Cornelis Johannes van Houten (on photographic plates taken by Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory)
Events at time of discovery:

• September 22 – Birth of Scott Baio, American actor
• September 24 – The Howdy Doody Show presented its 2,343rd and final episode, after a run that started on NBC on December 27, 1947. After the marionette Howdy Doody, and host Buffalo Bob Smith, gave their farewells, Clarabell the Clown – who had never spoken – surprised his audience by saying, "Goodbye, kids."
• – USS Enterprise, the first atomic-powered aircraft carrier in history, and the largest ship ever built up to that time, was launched at Newport News, Virginia.
• September 25 – Birth of Eduardo Yáñez, Mexican film and television actor

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Naming information

Name origin: Important Egyptian underworld god, husband of Isis
Mythology: Osiris was originally a local deity from Lower Egypt who may have been a personification of fertility in the chthonic realms. He evolved to represent both fertility and death/resurrection; not only ruler of the dead but also the power that granted all life from the underworld.

Osiris on a lapis lazuli pillar in the middle, flanked by Horus on the left and Isis on the right (Twenty-second Dynasty, Louvre, Paris). Photo by Rama.

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Astrological data

Discovery degree: 10+ Aries
Discovery Sabian: The Ruler Of a Nation
Discovery nodal signature: Pisces-Virgo
Estimated orbital resonances: Earth 5:19, Mars 9:16, Ceres 6:5
Discovery chart details: New lunar phase close to crescent. The Sun was square Mars and sesquiquadrate Ceres, which was quincunx the North Node. Uranus was on MC and Neptune rising. Pallas was conjunct Saturn in Capricorn, with Vesta close by. Osiris was square Vesta, conjunct Eris and sextile Pholus.

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Summary and references

May signify change and transformation, renewal, resuscitation^[1]; sensitivity, gender fluidity, dismantling^[2]; "growth and strengthening through trial and tribulation"^[3].

References:
1) Alex Miller: Osiris 1923
2) Mark Andrew Holmes: Osiris
3) Neptune's Aura Astrology: Osiris 1923

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Discovery chart for (1923) Osiris: 24th September 1960, 09:01 UTC, Leiden, Netherlands.