Sorry cant find any info on this.
How do I determine how fast the asteroids move in comparison to planets. You start with the slower moving planet, but I dont know where the asteroids fall? Ceres, Lucifer, and Chiron specifically. Do they fall in between somewhere?
Thx
Rick
Hi Rick,
All of the bodies in the asteroid belt, where both Ceres and Lucifer are located, orbit at speeds slower than Mars and faster than Jupiter. Here is a list of asteroids in the asteroid belt which many of us use in EA, from fastest to slowest (orbital periods in parentheses where available):
*MARS*
Vesta (3.63 yrs)
Lilith (4.36 yrs) - note this is asteroid Lilith, not black moon or dark moon
Juno (4.37 yrs)
Kassandra (4.38 yrs)
Pandora (4.58 yrs)
Ceres (4.6 yrs)
Pallas (4.62 yrs)
Lucifer (4.93 yrs)
Amazone
Persephone (5.34 yrs)
*JUPITER*
However, not all asteroids are in the asteroid belt and therefore some of them move faster than Mars or slower than Jupiter. For example, I use Eros, which is a so-called "near-Earth asteroid", and its orbital period is 1.76 years, which means that it falls between Venus and Mars. So when working with phasal relationships to asteroids, it is important to either look up their orbital period (which is usually included on their entries in wikipedia), or at least to know their basic location (asteroid belt, near earth, etc.) to determine phasal relationships.
You also asked about Chiron, which is not an asteroid but a planetoid with "cometary qualities" that continues to defy astronomical categories. It has an orbital period of 50.76 years, making it faster than Saturn and slower than Uranus.
Hope that is helpful,
God bless,
Jason
Thanks Jason!
That is exactly the info I was looking for and more. Appreciate!