Asteroid 2246, Bowell, was discovered on December 14, 1979 by Edward Bowell at the Lowell Observatory's Anderson Mesa Station near Flagstaff, Arizona. It has a period of 7 years, 308 days and is about 33 miles in diameter.
It was named at the suggestion of Brian D. Marsden for its discoverer, Edward L.G. (Ted) Bowell, a distinguished astronomer specializing in minor planets.
Ted Bowell
Astrologically, asteroid Bowell seems to indicate having to do with the bowels or the depths of something; in trouble; giving trouble; filth or filthiness.
Physician Burrill Crohn, a specialist in disorders of the intestine who discovered the form of colitis that bears his name, had Bowell conjunct Chiron, opposite Hylonome, parallel Neptune and contraparallel Vesta.
Composer Lili Boulanger, who died of Crohn's disease, had Bowell conjunct Asbolus and parallel Mercury.
British doctor John Snow, who gained fame for his work in tracing the source of a cholera outbreak in London in 1854, had Bowell sextile Mercury and square Venus.
US President James Polk, who died of cholera, had Bowell sextile Juno(quality of environment).
Charles Schulz, who died of colon cancer two months after being diagnosed, had Bowell conjunct Chiron and trine Ceres.
Josef Mengele had Bowell conjunct the South Node, sesquiquadrate the Sun and opposite Elatus and the North Node.
Elie Wiesel had Bowell sextile Lilith, square Vesta and Dioretsa, and opposite Pluto.
Rwandan genocide criminal Theoneste Bagosora has Bowell sextile Lilith and sesquiquadrate Mars.
"American Taliban" John Walker Lindh has Bowell semisquare Uranus, square Ceres and trine Varuna.
Andrija Mohorovicic had Bowell sextile Mars, square the Nodes, opposite Saturn and parallel the Sun.
The glyph for Bowell is mine.