2000 OO67 A Fascinating Centaur

some of the many Sednoids tracked by NASA and astronomers worldwide. Could one of these be the real Planet X?
Way beyond Pluto and the Kuiper belt lie thousands of small bodies known as sednoids with highly irregular comet-like orbits in the thousands of years. The most famous we know is Sedna with a period of over 11,000 years.

Astronomers suspect a major body here(planet X, Nine, etc) herding all of these objects. Some of these sednoids are actually long-term centaurs like 2000 OO67 and 2006 SQ372 (highlighted in the image above). Most of them don't have names yet and their vast periods are uncertain.

One particular tno/sednoid/centaur, 2000 OO67, discovered July 29, 2000 in Chile, caught my attention. I am not claiming that it is Planet X, but simply that it is interesting.

2000 OO67 has a roughly 12,000 year orbit which is about half a Great Year, and its highly eccentric orbit makes it go through most of the signs in 1/22nd of its cycle near perihelion(closest approach to the Sun), and in only two signs at aphelion (farthest distance from the Sun).

At perihelion, 2000 OO67 crosses just inside the orbit of Uranus at 21 AU, and at aphelion it reaches the Ooort Cloud at over 1000 AU. In centaur fashion it bridges all bodies between Uranus(desire for the new) and the Cloud(AI collective?). Its passage through certain signs also marks pivotal periods in our history.

2000 OO67 goes through ten signs (Scorpio to Leo) in only 550 years! This is between 1811 AD and 2360 AD. It then goes through Virgo and Libra in over 5,500 years each! That's quite a diverging time span! Here is a rough breakdown of its passage through the signs:

Scorpio 1811 to 1948(137 yrs.
Sagittarius 1947 to 1979(32 yrs)
Capricorn 1979-1992(13 yrs)
Aquarius 1992-2000(8 yrs)
Pisces 2001-2006(5 yrs)
Aries 2006-2012(6 yrs)
Taurus 2012-21(8 yrs)
Gemini 2021-2036(15 yrs)
Cancer 2036-2084(47 yrs)
and Leo 2083-2360(276 yrs).

The "golden ages" of Virgo and Libra(the most civilized signs in astrology) both precede and follow the above with over 5500 years each! Pisces and Aries take the least amount of time.

What's also fascinating about 2000 OO67 is that its passage through Scorpio exactly defines the last Great Reset from the Mud Flood(early 1800's) to the Two World Wars(1914-45).

Here is a more detailed breakdown of 2000 OO67's orbit in the tropical zodiac...

1600 Jan.01 UT = 15.90 Lib
1650 Jan.01 UT = 18.37 Lib
1700 Jan.01 UT = 21.24 Lib
1750 Jan.01 UT = 24.67 Lib
1800 Jan.01 UT = 28.96 Lib
1811-1815 = Lib/Sco
1850 Jan.01 UT = 04.79 Sco
1875 Jan.01 UT = 08.71 Sco
1900 Jan.01 UT = 13.81 Sco
1910 Jan.01 UT = 16.32 Sco
1920 Jan.01 UT = 19.24 Sco
1930 Jan.01 UT = 22.70 Sco
1940 Jan.01 UT = 26.86 Sco
1946-48 = Sco/Sag
1950 Jan.01 UT = 02.04 Sag
1955 Jan.01 UT = 05.14 Sag
1960 Jan.01 UT = 08.69 Sag
1965 Jan.01 UT = 12.85 Sag
1970 Jan.01 UT = 17.73 Sag
1975 Jan.01 UT = 23.60 Sag
1979 = Sag/Cap
1980 Jan.01 UT = 00.75 Cap
1985 Jan.01 UT = 09.76 Cap
1990 Jan.01 UT = 21.24 Cap
1992/93 = Cap/Aqu
1995 Jan.01 UT = 06.11 Aqu
1996 Jan.01 UT = 09.58 Aqu
1997 Jan.01 UT = 13.28 Aqu
1998 Jan.01 UT = 17.12 Aqu
1999 Jan.01 UT = 21.16 Aqu
2000 Jan.01 UT = 25.38 Aqu
2000/01 = Aqu/Pis
2002 Jan.01 UT = 04.41 Pis
2003 Jan.01 UT = 09.15 Pis
2004 Jan.01 UT = 14.04 Pis
2005 Jan.01 UT = 19.08 Pis
2006 = Pis/Ari
2010 Jan.01 UT = 14.81 Ari
2012/13 = Ari/Tau
2015 Jan.01 UT = 08.27 Tau
2020 Jan.01 UT = 26.75 Tau
2020/21 = Tau/Gem
2025 Jan.01 UT = 10.51 Gem
2030 Jan.01 UT = 20.78 Gem
2035/36 = Gem/Can
2040 Jan.01 UT = 04.74 Can
2050 Jan.01 UT = 13.78 Can
2083/84 = Can/Leo
2100 Jan.01 UT = 04.72 Leo
2200 Jan.01 UT = 19.44 Leo
2359-66 = Leo/Vir
2500 Jan.01 UT = 05.91 Vir

2000 OO67 has another long term centaur companion, 2006 SQ372, with a similar(but longer) trajectory, spending most of its time in tropical Leo, Virgo and Libra. It was in Libra up to 1945/46, then moved into Scorpio staying there up to 1979/80(34 yrs), then in Sag 1980-1994(14 yrs), then in Cap from 1993-2002(9 yrs), Aquarius 2002-2009( 7 yrs), Pisces 2009-2017(8 yrs), Aries 2017-2030(12 yrs), Taurus 2030-2054(24 yrs), Gemini 2054-2140(86 yrs), Cancer 2140-2575(435 yrs)

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