Asteroid 7116, Mentall, was discovered on December 2, 1986 by Edward Bowell at the Anderson Mesa unit of Lowell Observatory near Flagstaff, Arizona. It has a period of 3 years, 190 days.
It was named after E. Talmadge "Tal" Mentall (born 1927), a former draftsman and amateur astronomer who joined the staff of Sky and Telescope magazine in 1994 and played an important role in the production of the Millennium Star Atlas, a joint undertaking with the European Space Agency published in 1997.
Tal Mentall
Astrologically, Mentall seems to indicate being "mental" (insane) or dealing with derangement..
Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, has Mentall conjunct Chariklo (to glamorize, need to keep perspective), sextile Pluto (self-destructive, anonymous), trine Heracles (to fight against) and quincunx Nessus (poisoned by psychological toxins). After he was turned in by his own brother, ending his long career of sending anonymous mail bombs to people, his family had to fight to keep the government from seeking the death penalty against him.
Dancer Vaclav Nijinsky, a schizophrenic who died in a mental institution, had Mentall sextile Mercury (the mind) and square Ixion (to set something in motion) and the Nodal axis (past influences, making connections).
Florida serial killer Aileen Wuornos, who proved that women too could be serial killers, began her killing spree after killing a man who raped her and was executed in spite of evidence that she was mentally ill, had Mentall sextile Saturn (consequences), square Mars, and opposite Cruithne (branded) and Chaos (groundbreaking).
Colin Ferguson (born January 14, 1958, in Kingston, Jamaica), who shot up a Long Island commuter train and blamed it on racism to the judge, had Mentall square Mars (anger, violence, firearms) and quincunx Lilith (the marginalized).
Carolyn McCarthy (born January 5, 1944, in New York), whose husband and son were among Ferguson's victims and who was elected to the US House of Representatives in large part out of anger that her US Representative voted against a gun-control bill, has Mentall conjunct Heracles, sextile the Sun (to shine, to lead), opposite Chiron (need to pay attention), parallel Juno and Dioretsa (something that sticks), and contraparallel Damocles (politics, experience of groupthink, drastic change) and Ixion.
George Metesky (born November 2, 1903, in Waterbury, Connecticut), known as The Mad Bomber, had Mentall semisextile Juno and trine Jupiter.
Turn-of-the-20th-century serial killer Earle Leonard Nelson (born May 12, 1897, in San Francisco) had Mentall conjunct Chariklo, square Dioretsa and opposite Asbolus (awful experiences).
Another famous early-20th-century killer, Harry Thaw (born February 12, 1871, in Pittsburgh), who publicly assassinated an architect he blamed for abusing his wife, had Mentall semisextile Chariklo, sextile Phaethon, square Ceres (to nurture) and quincunx Mercury.
Jeffrey Dahmer had Mentall in the second house, semisquare Pandora (to make a splash), sextile Damocles (drastic misbehavior) and Pholus (folly, infection), trine Don Quixote (taking on an impossible task) and opposite Hidalgo.
John Hinckley's failed attempt to assassinate President Ronald Reagan in order to impress Jodie Foster and subsequent committal on a court verdict of innocence by reason of insanity led to changes in the way the criminal justice system treats the mentally ill. Hinckley has Mentall in the fifth house of love given and entertainment, undecimal Uranus (sudden events, making changes), trine the Vertex (significant relationships) and opposite Pallas (politics).
John Jamelske (born May 9, 1935), a DeWitt, New York man who spent decades kidnapping women and imprisoning them as sex slaves in a dungeon he constructed beneath his house, has Mentall semisextile Neptune, square Pholus (dictatorial behavior), trine Lilith, quincunx Phaethon and Chaos, and opposite Varuna (grown big, day of reckoning).
English identical twins and legendary gangsters Ronald and Reginald Kray both had Mentall in the tenth house, square Pallas (politics) and opposite Juno (the disenfranchised) within 2 00'. Both were regarded as folk heroes but were actually brutal criminals who at one point held London's East End hostage to their behavior. Ronald Kray, who became schizophrenic and was institutionalized, also had Mentall trine the Moon within 2 00' and also parallel Vesta (commitment) and contraparallel the Midheaven (authority, reputation), while Reginald Kray, who did not have schizophrenia, didn't have Mentall parallel Vesta or contraparallel the Midheaven (using a 1 00' orb), but did have Mentall in wider trine to the Moon, and also Mentall opposite to the Vertex within 2 00'.
Another set of British identical twins famous for exhibiting criminal behavior, Jennifer and June Gibbons, who were committed after a period of promiscuity, setting fires and other criminal behavior, both had Mentall in the fourth house, decile Mars (sex, violence, fires), sextile the Moon and Neptune (confusion, delusion, institutionalization), biquintile the Sun and opposite Venus (values, adolescence).
Thomas Klebold (born April 15, 1947, in Toledo, Ohio), father of Columbine gunmane Dylan Klebold, has Mentall conjunct Chaos and Cruithne (to be branded), sextile Pholus (courage before power), trine Jupiter (philosophy, the law) and Pandora (to stir things up, to have an impact), sesquiquadrate Pluto (a descent), parallel Ceres (family, grief) and Juno (marriage), and contraparallel Pallas (politics).
Susan Yassenoff Klebold (born March 25, 1949, in Columbus, Ohio), Dylan Klebold's mother, who works with disabled students in the Jefferson County, Colorado junior-college system and has also been made a scapegoat for the crimes of her son, has Mentall semisextile Lilith (the marginalized, that which is reluctantly dealt with), trine Hidalgo (to assert, to promote), opposite Sun (the husband, to lead, to be prominent) and Mars (violence), parallel Hylonome (dealing with grief, popular sentiment) and contraparallel Chaos.
Horror writer H.P. Lovecraft, whose father died in a mental hospital after becoming deranged as a result of tertiary syphilis and whose work was filled with nightmare imagery and events, had Mentall in the fourth house, conjunct Jupiter (publishing) and Varuna, sextile Pholus (infection), parallel Chaos (something groundbreaking) and contraparallel Ixion (inventive, creating karma).
The glyph for Mentall is mine and is meant to suggest a person in a straitjacket, an outmoded method of restraining the mentally ill which, like electroshock treatment and the lobotomy, still has a powerful hold on the public mind; it is almost synonymous with being considered deranged.