Re: Some Missing Astrological Symbols

From: Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin (antonio@tuvalkin.web.pt)
Date: Wed Nov 16 2005 - 19:41:32 CST

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    On 2005.11.14, 21:28, Kenneth Whistler <kenw@sybase.com> wrote:

    >> 4 symbols for the main belt asteroids Ceres, Pallas,
    >> Juno, and Vesta, a symbol for the Centaur minor planet
    >> Chiron, one for the virtual point Black Moon Lilith,
    >
    > These six can be found on the cover of the book,
    > The Asteroid Ephemeris 1900 to 2050. See:
    > http://www.astroamerica.com/aster2.html

    At < http://www.astrologicallyspeaking.com/ceres.htm >, < http://www.asi\
    .org/images/2001/ >, < http://www.astrocontent.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t\
    =2349&sid=4432f3431c74364be92061aa902abcdf > and < http://aa.usno.navy.\
    mil/hilton/AsteroidHistory/minorplanets.html >, Ceres looks like an
    U+02A1 (barred glottee) (*), but at < http://www.usoe.k12.ut.us/curr/\
    science/core/6th/sciber6/SSYSTEM/ASTEROID/asteroid.htm > it is more like
    U+2731 U+031F (asterisk with barred long stalk); both are present in the
    mentioned book cover.

    Most other sources I checked use the latter (U+002A U+031F; asterisk with
    barred long stalk) to Juno, though. Exception for < http://aa.usno.navy.\
    mil/hilton/AsteroidHistory/minorplanets.html >, which gives for Juno a
    Venus sign with asterisk above it. This asterisk appears with both eight
    < http://www.ifortune.net/img/sg/p33.png > and six spokes < http://www.\
    awarenessshop.com/KnowledgeBase/Resources/juno1c.gif >.

    The page < http://www.usoe.k12.ut.us/curr/science/core/6th/sciber6/SSYS\
    TEM/ASTEROID/asteroid.htm > gives for Vesta what looks like U+2565 U+0306
    (horned altar?), but others have it different: < http://www.asi.org/ima\
    ges/2001/ >, < http://aa.usno.navy.mil/hilton/AsteroidHistory/minorplan\
    ets.html > -- perhaps it is the same symbol but less or differently
    stylized?...

    Pallas is symbolized by U+25B3 U+031F (triangle with cross "handle") in
    almost all sources I saw, ex.: < http://www.asi.org/images/2001/ >; that
    is replaced in the mentioned book cover by a lozenge with "handle" (U+25CA
    U+031F), as also at < http://www.astrocontent.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=\
    2349&sid=4432f3431c74364be92061aa902abcdf >.

    Chiron is the circle with "k" stalk above, U+26B2 U+1DDE, a fairily recent
    symbol, I gather. All about it at < http://home.no.net/lbw/astro4.htm >
    (in Swedish).

    As for Lilith, the symbol seems to be a filled ("black") U+263E (or U+263D
    sometimes), which is missing in the standard (though we have both "black"
    U+2600 and "white" U+263C suns, apart from the actual symbol U+2609).

    At < http://aa.usno.navy.mil/hilton/AsteroidHistory/minorplanets.html#2 >
    there is a list of symbols, though marked as «old symbol»s. The
    bibliographic source given is Gould, B.A. (1852): “On the Symbolic
    Notation of the Asteroids”. _Astron. J._ *2*: 80.

    At < http://www.astrocontent.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2349&sid=4432f343
    1c74364be92061aa902abcdf > (in German), there's plent of symbols, some of
    them for quite recently discovered bodies.

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