Hinderer

Asteroid 3404, Hinderer, was discovered on February 4, 1934 by Karl Reinmuth at Heidelberg, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany. Hinderer has a period of 4 years, 132 days and is slightly less than 5 1/4 miles in diameter.

It was named for German astronomer Fritz Hinderer (1912-1991), a Berlin astronomy professor whose research focused on irregular variable stars.

Astrologically, asteroid Hinderer seems to indicate hindering (Jonathan Dunn), or possibly, trying to stop something, making a possibly futile stand against something, sticking with something personally meaningful until the bitter end. Fritz Hinderer's father, August Hinderer, was a prominent theology professor who spoke out against the Nazis when few other Germans would, and when his family home was wrecked in an Allied air raid in 1944 and following his death in 1945, his family doggedly maintained the ruin and the grounds as best they could throughout the long Cold War division of Berlin and the years that followed. Fritz Hinderer, the last survivor of August Hinderer's four children, maintained the garden and its fruit trees literally up until his sudden death at the age of 79; his body was found one day in the garden several days after his relatives lost contact with him.

The glyph for Hinderer is mine.



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