Asteroid 9996, ANS, was discovered on October 17, 1960 by C.J. Van Houten and Ingrid Van Houten-Groeneveld at Palomar Observatory near Pauma Valley, California. ANS has a period of years, days.
It was named for the Netherlands' first satellite, the Astronomical Netherlands Satellite (ANS), which was launched on August 30, 1974 and for a year and 8 months served as an orbiting ultraviolet and X-ray observatory.
Astrologically, asteroid ANS seems to indicate ants, antsy, industriousness, community effort.
James K. Polk, 11th president of the US, had ANS sextile Mars and Jupiter and parallel Venus.
Bill Clinton has ANS in the seventh house, on the Descendant, trine Mercury.
George W. Bush has ANS conjunct Vesta.
Hillary Clinton has ANS square Venus.
Entomologist and ant expert David H. Oi has ANS conjunct Asbolus and sextile Hylonome.
Mary Morales Gay, an elderly resident of a North Port, Florida nursing home who died a day after being attacked in her bed by ants on May 18, 2000, had ANS sextile Asbolus and Don Quixote, square Ceres, trine Varuna and quincunx Sun and Elatus.
Earl Dean Griffith, a retired postal worker from Rockledge, Florida who was also fatally attacked by ants in his Melbourne, Florida nursing-home bed, July 26, 2001, had ANS conjunct Jupiter, semisquare Vesta and parallel Juno.
The glyph for ANS is mine.