Showing posts with label naming of new object. Show all posts
Showing posts with label naming of new object. Show all posts

Saturday, 27 October 2012

Gandharva, Hindu mythology for the inner Oort cloud objects


In Hinduism, the gandharvas are male nature spirits, husbands of the Apsaras. Some are part animal, usually a bird or horse. They have superb musical skills. 

In Hindu theology, gandharvas act as messengers between the gods and humans. 

In Buddhism, Gandharvas can fly through the air, and are known for their skill as musicians. They are connected with trees and flowers, and are described as dwelling in the scents of bark, sap, and blossom.

Gandharva or gandhabba is also used in a completely different sense, referring to a being (or, strictly speaking, part of the causal continuum of consciousness) in a liminal state between death and rebirth. (Wikipedia)

[Related book: "Many Lives, Many Masters" (Brian Weiss, 1988)]

Monday, 30 November 2009

Pan Gu, Chinese mythology for twotinos

An appropriate official name for a twotino could be Pan Gu in Chinese mythology. Pan Gu was a man with a chisel and a torch. He created the world by separating Earth (yin) from the Sky (yang), that were originally united in a big egg.

Another name could be Olorun in African mythology.

Tuesday, 14 July 2009

Fractal structures at the edge of chaos


When an archetype emerges in the collective conscious, a fractal structure is created because there is a phase transition between the collective unconscious and the collective conscious.

Self-similarity is a property of fractal structures, that means that the global structure is the same at different scales. For example, studying the solar system and their planets is the same as studying the brain (as above, so below).

When a new archetype emerges in the collective conscious, its quality is present from the personal life of a single individual to groups or collective events. As I wrote in the previous message ("Naming of 2003 UB313 (Eris)"), studying a group of astronomers at a given moment is the same as studying global human activity.

Note: self-similarity is also applied to time dimension in astrology. For example, progressions (a day as a year).

Saturday, 2 May 2009

Emotional intelligence of scattered disc objects

When the bestseller "Emotional Intelligence" (Daniel Goleman, 1995) was published, the astronomical "eye" was pointed towards the first SDO discovered (1995 TL8).

The first name assigned to a SDO was Eris, a deity with high social intelligence (Eris selfknowledge allows to make the right choice).


Elements of emotional intelligence and its application in real life. Goleman notes that the problem is not the emotions per se, but their appropriate use in given situations. He quotes Aristotle: 'Anyone can become angry - that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way - this is not easy.'

"Timson Cride" (1995)

Saturday, 11 August 2007

Naming of twotinos (1:2 resonance with Neptune)

Pluto, Chiron, Varuna, Sedna and Eris: they are the first names in its own category (plutino, centaur, classical Kuiper belt object, inner Oort cloud object and scattered disk object). 

Which will be the first name to be assigned to a twotino (1:2 resonance with Neptune)?