
Asteroid 37655, Illapa, was discovered on August 1, 1994 by Carolyn S. Shoemaker and Eugene M. Shoemaker at Palomar. It has a period of 1 year, 291 days.
It was named for Illapa, the Inca god of the weather and the thunder. He brought rain down from the Milky Way to feed the Inca Empire and created thunder by cracking his sister's water jug with a slingshot.

Illapa

The astrological meaning of asteroid Illapa seems to be informed by this:rain, "rainmaking," watering.