Plücker

Discovered on November 15, 1998 by Paul G. Comba at Prescott, Arizona, asteroid 29643, Plücker, was named for German mathematician and physicist Julius Plücker (1801-1868), who put forth the seminal proposition that the fundamental element in geometry need not be the point but could be the straight line, and that a duality exists between points and lines.

Julius Plücker


Astrologically, asteroid Plücker seems to indicate plucking—that is, fleecing or robbing; or perhaps cowardice ("plucka-plucka-plucka")

Frank Abagnale of Catch Me If You Can fame has Plucker conjunct Hylonome (popular appeal) and square 1996 TO66 (vision).

Famed Texas flim-flam artist Billie Sol Estes has Plucker sextile Stentor (in a loud voice) and square the Sun (to shine) and Don Quixote (taking on the system).

Ivan Boesky (born March 6, 1937, in Detroit) has Plucker sextile Thersander (getting what you think you deserve), square Venus (values) and Nessus (predation), and trine Asbolus (bad advice given--"Greed is all right").

"Junk-bond king" Michael Milken (born July 4, 1946, in Los Angeles) has Plucker conjunct Ixion (bad karma), sextile Mercury (speech, writing), quintile Saturn (work), square Odysseus (schemes), and opposite Cruithne (in touch with one's roots).

Charles Ponzi (born March 3, 1882, in Parma, Italy), inventor of a classic con scheme known as the Ponzi scheme, in which investors are paid off with new investors' cash, who also sold worthless swampland in Florida until the US deported him, had Plucker conjunct Agamemnon (generalship) and Hektor (bravery, chutzpah) and square 1999 TD10 (empire, exuberance).

Neville Chamberlain (born March 8, 1869, in Birmingham, England), the British prime minister whose name has become synonymous with appeasement of dangerous tyrants, had Plucker sextile Mars (action taken) and Saturn (career, consequences), square Pandora (unintended consequences, making a splash, having an impact), sesquiquadrate Venus (peacemaking efforts), quincunx Pluto (unforgettable, self-damaging), and opposite Neptune (idealism, illusion, delusion).

The glyph for Plucker is mine.



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