Asteroid 1912, Anubis, was discovered on September 24, 1960 by C. J. van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld at Leiden, Netherlands, on plates taken by Tom Gehrels at Palomar Mountain Observatory near Pauma Valley, California. It has a period of 4 years, 347 days.
It was named for Anubis (Anapa in Coptic, the language of the ancient Egyptians), the jackal-headed Egyptian god of the dead, mummification and the afterlife who weighs the souls of the deceased against the feather of truth, determining their eternal destiny.
Anubis
The meaning of asteroid Anubis, according to Henk Middleraad, is: change. J.Lee Lehman, in The Ultimate Asteroid Book, has the meaning of Anubis as death as a more than usually important thing.