Baboquivari



Asteroid 2059. Baboquivari, an Apollo asteroid, was discovered on October 16, 1963 at the Goethe Link Observatory, Indiana University, which gets the discovery credit. It was lost and then recovered in 1976 at Kitt Peak Observatory near Sells, Arizona. It has a period of 4 years, 110 days.

It was named for a mountain on the Tohono O'odham reservation south of Kitt Peak which is sacred to the Tohono O'odham (formerly Papago) Native American tribe.

Baboquivari

Astrologically, asteroid Baboquivari seems to mean sacred places, sacred space.

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