![]() ![]() ![]() But the point works very well as an indicator of deception, based on the English homonym “lie,” an untruth.Īnd as with many celestials, events constellating about their discovery periods often prove illuminating of their meaning: barely six months later, one of the biggest lie-related stories in modern times emerged, as the US was plunged into the Lewinsky scandal, after then President Bill Clinton lied about having sexual relations with a White House intern in a deposition in the Paula Jones case. When discovered at Arizona’s Prescott Observatory on 30 June 1997, Lie was named for Norwegian mathematician Sophus Lie (pronounced “lee”), originator of the theory of continuous symmetry, who had died almost a century previously. ![]() A whole range of homonyms, homophones, homographs, cognates and colloquialisms in asteroid form do in fact show prominently in charts of persons or events for which their linguistic alter egos are significant, such as Bilk, Lust, Pecker and Agita. Asteroid Lie (#26955) is yet another of that mysterious class of celestial bodies named for one thing but resonating to other meanings. ![]()
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