Pan



Asteroid 4450, Pan, an Apollo asteroid, was discovered on September 25, 1987 by Carolyn and Eugene Shoemaker at Palomar Observatory near Pauma Valley, California. It has a period of 1 years, 267 days.

It was named for the Greek god of nature and livestock.

Pan and Psyche, by British painter Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898)


Marianne Alexander has linked asteroid Pan to being uninhibited, wild or natural. It may also have to do with wilderness, livestock, ranching.

The glyph for Pan is mine and is meant to suggest the god Pan's cloven hooves.



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