Asteroid 16254, Harper, was discovered on April 29, 2000 by the Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) team at Socorro, New Mexico. Harper has a period of 4 years, 302 days.
It was named after Dan Harper, an Austin high-school teacher who mentored a finalist in the 2002 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for high school seniors.
Astrologically, asteroid Harper seems to indicate harping on something, being a gadfly, harps and harp players.
Distinguished Spanish harpist Nicanor Zabaleta (born January 7, 1907 in San Sebastian, Guipuzcoa, Spain) had Harper semisquare Pluto (highly distinguished), sextile Ceres (to nurture), square Juno (public persona), biquintile Mercury (the hands), and quincunx Cruithne (a mark, a brand name).
Derek Bell (born October 21, 1935, in Belfast), the harpist for the Irish folk band The Chieftains who also worked in film and was noted for his onstage eccentricities, had Harper decile Venus (art) and Neptune (film), quintile Mercury, tredecile Jupiter (enthusiasm), trine Hylonome (popular appeal, recklessness) and Varuna (grown big), sesquiquadrate Mars (assertion, energy), quincunx Pholus (goofiness), and opposite Cruithne (heritage).
Salt Lake City teen kidnap victim Elizabeth Smart, who plays the harp, has Harper in the third house, semisquare Chariklo (glamorization, need to keep perspective), square the Ascendant (personal interests), trine Hylonome (pathos, popular appeal), sesquiquadrate Pallas (defense of civilized values), quincunx Venus (art, adolescence), and parallel the Moon (the public, home, family).
Jesse Jackson has Harper conjunct Ixion (creating karma), sextile Pluto (mass movements, power, self-damage), contraparallel the North Node, and parallel the South Node.
Feminist leader Martha Burk, who has fought an uphill battle to open the Masters golf club in Augusta, Georgia to female members, has Harper sextile Chiron (lessons taught or learned), trine Cruithne (heritage), sesquiquadrate Saturn (work for little reward), and opposite Dioretsa (off course).
Rush Limbaugh has Harper in the eighth house, sextile Juno (the anger of the self-perceived dispossessed, giving away power), square Chiron, trine Ceres and opposite Chaos (activism).
Pat Robertson, a minister much more interested in right-wing politics than in religion, has Harper conjunct Chiron (teaching) and Phaethon (a phenomenon), semisextile Venus (values), and tredecile Neptune (deception) and Juno (the anger of the self-perceived dispossessed).
Hillary Clinton, a favorite target for the right and a tireless advocate for the little person, has Harper sextile Hidalgo (to assert, to promote, machismo), trine Saturn (work, career, rewards and consequences) and biquintile Vesta (dedication).
Jane Fonda, who has never stopped paying for her misguided 1970 visit to Hanoi, has Harper in the eleventh house of politics, semisextile the Midheaven (career, reputation), decile the Ascendant (personal appearance or interests), sextile Damocles (transgressive, experience of groupthink), square Neptune (scandal), and trine the Moon (the public) and Pandora (making a splash, having an impact, stirring things up, unintended consequences).
Tonya Harding, who will likely never stop paying either, in her case for the 1994 Winter Olympics, has Harper sextile Don Quixote (taking on the system), square Phaethon (off track, out of control, a phenomenon) and tredecile Neptune (scandal).
The glyph for Harper is mine.