Focus On: (6235) Burney

Basics

Class: Asteroid
Location: Main belt
Orbit length (approx): 3.36 years
Discovered: 14th November 1987 at 10:29 UTC, from the Kushiro Observatory, Hokkaido, Japan, by Seiji Ueda and Hiroshi Kaneda
Events at time of discovery:

• November 14 – Birth of Sofia Assefa, Ethiopian middle-distance runner
• November 15 – In Braşov, Romania, workers rebel against the communist regime led by Nicolae Ceauşescu.

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Naming information

Name origin: Venetia Phair (née Burney), who at age 11 was the first to suggest the name Pluto when said planet was discovered. She studied mathematics and became an accountant, and later a teacher.

Detail of a studio portrait photograph of Venetia Burney, aged 11, around the time she named Pluto. Taken by J. Weston & Son Photographers, Eastbourne, U.K.

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Astrological data

Discovery degree: 19+ Aries
Discovery Sabian: A Young Girl Feeding Birds in Winter
Discovery nodal signature: Sagittarius-Leo
Estimated orbital resonances: Mercury 1:14, Venus 2:11, Earth 3:10, Mars 7:11, Ceres 11:8, Jupiter 7:2, Chiron 15:1
Discovery chart details: Last quarter phase chart, with the Moon in the first degree of Virgo sesquiquadrate Eris and quincunx the North Node. The Sun was quincunx Jupiter and semi-square Neptune. Burney was trine a Pallas-Saturn conjunction in Sagittarius.

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Summary and references

Amable relates Burney to "very personal approaches, that later have validity at the collective level"^[1]. The discovery Sabian is similarly themed, featuring an act of compassion potentially producing a helpful ripple effect.

References:
1) Amable: (6235) Burney

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Discovery chart for (6235) Burney: 14th November 1987, 10:29 UTC, Hokkaido, Japan.