Cubewanos, according to current guidelines, are planets beyond the orbit of Pluto that under the astronomical naming guidelines get named for gods of creation, ascension and resurrection. Plutinos planets with orbits more similar to Pluto, in the range of years are named for underworld deities from various cultures.
However, QB1 appears to have archetypal similarities with both classes of planets. She seems to be a bridge between the 'underworld' and the 'world of creation'. That bridge is a way of accessing the unconscious -- a way that is disctinctly different than the often-wrenching changes of Pluto. We are used to the Plutonic equation grow or die. QB1 seems to be more of a gentle lure, an invitation to enter a space, and a situation where one has a mode of assistance to go there. QB1 does not play the game of destroying something in order to recreate it.
She is more about going beyond the known and into the unknown as a voluntary experience of saying yes. It is significant that QB1 lacks what is in a sense the cultural baggage of a mythological title. She is free of the garb of a morality tale or creation myth. You could say she was, and remains, an anonymous harbinger of the next major era in planetary science and its corresponding development of our model of personality.
She guides us, as well, to a new place within ourselves. Interestingly, there was another "first of its kind" discovery in , that of Pholus , the second Centaur. Lost Among Rings. Saturn's Sunlit Rings. Approach to Saturn. This infrared movie from NASA's Cassini mission shows the churning of the curious six-sided jet stream at Saturn's north pole known as "the hexagon.
Hexagon in Silhouette. Amateur astronomer Christopher Go took this image of a storm on Saturn from his veranda in Cebu, Philippines, on March 13, The arrow indicates the location of the storm, around 40 degrees sou Amateur photography of Saturn by Christopher Go. The unlit side of the rings glows with scattered sunlight as two moons circle giant Saturn.
The light reaching Cassini in this view has traveled many paths before being captured. At left, Mimas Light from Many Paths.
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More recently, similar surveys yielded the comet-like objects Chiron 2 and Pholus 3 beyond the orbit of Saturn. Here we report the discovery of a new object, QB 1 , moving beyond the orbit of Neptune. We suggest that this may represent the first detection of a member of the Kuiper belt 4,5 , the hypothesized population of objects beyond Neptune and a possible source of the short-period comets 6—8.
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