Audubon

Asteroid 75564, Audubon, was discovered January 2, 2000 by C.W. Juels at Fountain Hills, Arizona. It has a period of 3 years, 187 days.

It was named for Haitian-born French-American ornithologist (bird expert) and artist John James Audubon (1785-1851).

John James Audubon (an 1826 oil painting by John Syme)


Astrologically, asteroid Audubon seems to indicate having to do with birds, or "taking flight.".

Robert Stroud, "The Birdman of Alcatraz," had Audubon in the sixth house, sextile Dioretsa and parallel Uranus and Juno.

Charles-Lucien Bonaparte, another expert on birds, had Audubon conjunct Asbolus, sextile Uranus and trine Pluto.

Salim Ali had Audubon sextile Saturn, Uranus and Pallas, parallel Nessus, and contraparallel Neptune.

Tennis player and Czech defector from Communism Martina Navratilova has Audubon in the twelfth house, opposite Jupiter, parallel Dioretsa and contraparallel Hylonome.

Dancer and defector from Soviet Russia Rudolf Nureyev had Audubon sextile North Node, trine South Node, opposite Pluto and parallel Don Quixote.

Paul Gauguin, who abandoned his family in France to move to French Polynesia and paint, had Audobon sextile Saturn, Vesta and South Node; trine North Node; quincunx Pandora and parallel Ceres.

William B. Travis, who abandoned his wife and children in Alabama and found glory dying at the Alamo, had Audubon quincunx Varuna, parallel South Node, and contraparallel Chiron, Chaos, Dioretsa and North Node.

Richard Bach, author of the widely popular inspirational novella Jonathan Livingston Seagull, abandoned his family also; he had Audubon conjunct Chiron, sextile Chariklo, square Lilith, opposite Jupiter and parallel Mercury.

The glyph for Audubon is mine.



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