Asteroid 6157, Prey, was discovered on September 9, 1991 by Lutz D. Schmadel and Friedrich Börngen at Tautenburg, Thuringia, Germany. It has a period of 3 years, 284 days.
It was named after Austrian astronomer Adalbert Prey (1873-1949), professor of astronomy in Innsbruck, Austria; Prague; and, eventually, Vienna, where he was elected to membership in the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
Astrologically, Prey seems to mean to prey or be religious or religiose, or both.
Con artist Charles Ponzi (born March 3, 1882, in Parma, Italy), who developed the con scheme named for him and may have also popularized the term "selling Florida swampland" (one of his other scams), had Prey semisextile Mercury (speaking, writing, ideas) and sextile Pluto (criminal behavior), Nessus )predation, greed) and Varuna (grown big).
Legendary computer cracker (outlaw hacker) Kevin Mitnick (born August 6, 1963, in Los Angeles) has Prey decile Pallas (conceptualization) and Pluto, sextile Elatus (eloquent expression, self-justification), trine Pholus (need to show respect), opposite Cruithne (branded), and contraparallel Mercury.
Con artist turned white-collar-crime consultant Frank Abagnale, whose wild times were depicted in the book Catch Me If You Can and the movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio which is based on it, has Prey conjunct Neptune (deception, imagination) and Don Quixote (taking on the system, tackling entrenched influences), quincunx Juno (creating an image) and Nessus, and opposite Dioretsa (veering off course, foolishness, sticking).
Murderer, sex criminal, forger, counterfeiter and swindler Mike DeBardeleben (born March 20, 1940 in Little Rock, Arkansas) had Prey conjunct Lilith (repressed rage released, marginalization) and parallel Uranus (inventive, prodigious, abnormal).
Notorious cannibalistic child killer Albert Fish (born May 19, 1870 in Washington) had Prey decile Neptune, sextile Mars (violence, meat), quintile the Sun (to shine), square Mercury, trine Elatus and Hidalgo (to assert, to promote), and parallel Pallas.
Jeffrey Dahmer victim Konerak Sinthasomphone had Prey tredecile Mercury, trine the Sun and quincunx Ixion (creation of karma).
Jeffrey Dahmer had Prey in the third house of the media, short trips and neighbors, on the IC, conjunct Saturn (rewards and consequences), decile Ceres (family issues), quintile Neptune, square the Moon (the public, the mother) and Ascendant, sesquiquadrate Pluto, and opposite Asbolus, Elatus and Don Quixote. It has been alleged that Dahmer's mother was mentally ill.
California murder victim Polly Klaas had Prey in the second house sextile Don Quixote, trine Vesta, sesquiquadrate Neptune, quincunx Pandora (making a splash, unintended consequences) and quindecile Pluto. Her father Marc Klaas worked tirelessly to bring her killer to justice and her death at the age of 12 brought about increased awareness of and more vigorous and effective responses against crimes against children.
Michigan teenager Samantha Reid (born January 2, 1984), who died at age 15 after being given the club drug GHB at a party and whose death contributed to the passing of stricter laws against possession and use of club drugs, had Prey conjunct Ceres, semisextile Mercury, trine Pluto, and opposite Pandora.
Canadian serial killer Karla Homolka, who worked with her husband Paul Bernardo, has Prey in the seventh house of marriage, semisextile Vesta (dedication), decile Mars (rape, violence) and quincunx Hidalgo (to dominate, to conquer, to look after oneself).
George Metesky (born November 2, 1903, in Waterbury, Connecticut), the so-called "Mad Bomber," who planted numerous pipe bombs in and around New York between 1940 and 1956, many beneath movie-theater seats, until being caught with the aid of a profiler, had Prey conjunct Uranus (explosives, bombs), semisquare Mars, sextile Damocles (drastic change, danger, crisis) and square Venus (socialization, the arts, love). Metesky was unmarried and sexually inhibited, which was tied to his bombing behaviors.
Mikhail Kalashnikov (born November 10, 1919 in Altaj, Russia), inventor of the popular Kalashnikov AK-47 assault rifle, had Prey semisextile Chiron (the door-opener), tredecile the Sun (to shine), quindecile Mars (violence, firearms, the military), and opposite Don Quixote.
Pat Robertson has Prey conjunct Juno (creating an image, the rage of the [self-]disenfranchised), square Pallas (politics) and trine Ixion (inventive, creative, generating karma).
Jerry Falwell has Prey sextile Neptune (spirituality, deception) and Pholus (need to show respect), trine Cruithne (a brand name, branded), quincunx Varuna (grown huge, judgemental) and quindecile Ceres (to nurture).
Prominent homophobe Fred Phelps has Prey semisextile Venus and Pholus, tredecile Vesta, trine Varuna and contraparallel Jupiter (the law).
Paul Shanley, the renegade Catholic priest and promoter of pedophilia who co-founded NAMBLA, has Prey conjunct Chaos and Heracles (to struggle against), semisextile the Sun, sextile Pholus (insinuating something in), sesquiquadrate Pluto, opposite Neptune, parallel the South Node (the path of least resistance, separation), and contraparallel Ceres and the North Node (making connections).
Ian Paisley (born April 6, 1926, in Armagh, Northern Ireland), a Protestant Northern Irish minister and anti-Catholic bigot who has done a lot to fuel "The Troubles" in Northern Ireland, has Prey semisextile Asbolus (foolishness, bad advice), decile Jupiter (religion, law), quintile Uranus, trine Phaethon (in the driver's seat, a phenomenon, out of control), quincunx Ceres and Chariklo (to glamorize, need to keep perspective), opposite Pluto, and contraparallel Vesta.
Nathuram Godse, the Hindu fanatic who assassinated Mahatma Gandhi, had Prey quintile Pluto (criminal behavior, self-destruction, unforgettable), square Mercury and Phaethon, and opposite Pallas (politics).
Mohammed Atta (born September 1, 1968, in Musha, Egypt), the leader of the 9-11 hijackers, had Prey decile Chiron (ingenuity, exploiting weakness, need to pay attention), square Varuna, tredecile Ceres, quincunx Venus (values, outrage), Uranus (aviation, terrorism, explosions) and Don Quixote (travel, taking on reality), and contraparallel the Sun.
Norma McCorvey (born September 22, 1947, in Simmesport, Louisiana), originator of the Supreme Court case that legalized abortion in the US, later fell under the spell of the anti-abortionists. She has Prey decile Venus and trine Heracles and Varuna.
The glyph for Prey is mine.