Basics
Class: TNO
Location: Kuiper belt
Orbit length (approx): 241.61 years
Discovered: 17th April 1999, 03:19 UTC, from National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) in Arizona, by the Deep Ecliptic Survey.
Notes: Was originally thought to be a plutino but it turns out this is not the case.
Events at time of discovery:
- April 14 – Kosovo War: NATO warplanes repeatedly bomb ethnic Albanian refugee convoys for 2 hours over a 12-mile stretch of road, after mistaking them for Yugoslav military trucks, between Đakovica and Dečani in western Kosovo, killing at least 73 refugees.
- April 17 – Death of Julian Cole, 74, American mathematician
- – Death of Ahmad bin Mohamed Ibrahim, 82, Singaporean lawyer and law professor
- April 20 – Columbine High School massacre.
Naming information
Name origin: Greek son of Zeus and Europa
Mythology: Because of his just and upright life, after death Rhadamanthys was appointed a judge of the dead and the ruler of Elysium, a blissfully beautiful area of the Underworld where those favoured by the gods spent their life after death.
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| Detail of the Judges of the Dead from the name vase of the Underworld Painter, ca. 330-310 BCE. From left: Rhadamanthys, Minos and Aeakos. Held at the Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich, Germany. |
Astrological data
Discovery degree: 1+ Libra
Discovery Sabian: The Transmutation of the Fruits of Past Experiences Into the Seed-Realizations of the Forever Creative Spirit
Discovery nodal signature: Aries-Libra
Estimated orbital resonances: Chiron 4:19, Uranus 7:20, Neptune 11:16, Eris 7:3
Discovery chart details: New phase chart with 6th house stellium containing Sun, Moon, Pallas and Saturn. Rhadamanthus was sesquiquadrate Uranus and square Nessus. Moon quincunx Juno-Pluto; Sun tightly opposite Pholus and sesquiquadrate Juno. Ceres was closely sextile and Eris trine the North Node. Nessus semi-square Uranus; Ceres semi-square Saturn. Asbolus rising, Sedna descending, Nodes on the MC-IC axis.
Summary and references
Interpretations given so far include: integrity, justice, judgment, rightful punishments, scrupulous honesty[1]; obtaining the truth of a past unresolved matter[2]; sternness, uprightness, self-effacing and self-critical qualities[3]; just but inflexible judgments[4]; second chances, latitude or open-mindedness versus condemnation or feelings of persecution[5]; law and order, good versus evil, the potential to 'lose oneself' in ethics[6].
References:1) Alex Miller: Rhadamanthus 38083
2) Amable: (38083) Rhadamanthus
3) Mark Andrew Holmes: Rhadamanthus
4) Zane Stein: Rhadamanthus
5) Philip Sedgwick: New Dwarf Planets, Eris, Sedna, Centaurs & More
6) Benjamin Adamah: Plutinos (VAMzzz Publishing, 2021)
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| Discovery chart for (38083) Rhadamanthus: 17th April 1999, 03:19 UTC, Tucson, Arizona. |
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