Makemake
136472 Makemake is a dwarf planet and the second-largest of what is known as the classical population of Kuiper belt objects. It was discovered on March 31, 2005. In July 2008, in accordance with IAU rules for classical Kuiper belt objects, 2005 FY9 was given the name of a creator deity. The name of Makemake, the creator of humanity and god of fertility in the myths of the Rapa Nui, the native people of Easter Island was chosen.
Egg-throwing festival celebrated in Alicante, Spain. (VIDEO)
Participants of the annual Els Enfarinats festival in Alicante, Spain, dressed as soldiers, threw eggs and flour at each other while setting off fireworks.
Sun (play, laughter, sociability, entertainment) square Makemake (ceremonies involving the use of feathers or eggs).
Like every year, the mayor of the Alicante town hands over the baton of command for one day to a group of 'insurgents' who fight with eggs, flour and eggs on the big day of the festivities.
Russian emergency workers rescue chickens from flood. (VIDEO)
Russian EMERCOM workers rescued dozens of chickens stranded on wooden debris in flood-hit Tyumen Region. Poor birds! Not only can they not fly, they also don't know how to swim.
Rhiphonos (security protection, exercise (1st responders)) conjunct Makemake (birds (EMERCOM workers rescued dozens of chickens)).
Video released by EMERCOM shows rescue workers grabbing chickens from the floodwaters and placing them on a raft.
Poirot has become the latest to fall foul of sensitivity readers. Photo credit: 20th Century Fox
Even the bestselling novelist in the world isn't being spared woke rewrite treatments to spare the delicate sensitivities of modern readers, with Agatha Christie's works getting the full treatment from her publisher.
Mercury (reason, speaking, writing) sextile Chariklo (interrogative about touchy or delicate issues, intolerant) opposite Makemake (books, especially those of multi-cultural interest (Agatha Christie books have become the latest to be edited by sensitivity readers)).
Christie is famous for creating such timeless sleuths as Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, and the Daily Telegraph reports new editions based on both these investigators have had original passages amended or excised by publisher Harper Collins.
Ellie the hen becomes Elliot the rooster after years of laying eggs. Peter Meecham / Stuff
It seemed neighbours had annoyingly taken on a young rooster that was waking Sophie Lennon up at the crack of dawn - she never expected it might be one of her own hens that had transitioned from a she to a he.
Vesta (sexuality) quincunx Makemake (birds, eggs (Egg Producers Federation veterinarian Kerry Mulqueen described the sex-change phenomenon as "unusual" and "uncommon". But it "is possible", he said).
For nearly three weeks, Lennon had been hearing a cock-a-doodle-do about 5am. It had started out being rather feeble, but eventually became a full-blown crowing, she said.
"At first it was really pathetic, it was like a baby rooster, this tiny little crow." Living in semi-rural North Canterbury, she thought to herself: "I won't complain."
Earliest known signs of cannabis smoking unearthed in China. Photograph: Xinhua Wu
Incense burners found at 2,500-year-old cemetery suggest intentional use of the plant to get high.
Ceres (relationship with Nature, growing, herbs, plants) trine Salacia (able to work with the unseen) opposite Venus (cohesion) sextile Makemake (meditations to unify the minds of several). Vesta (devotion, sacrifice) square Varuna ("induced" journeys as in shamanically led vision quests).
Scorched wooden incense burners unearthed at an ancient burial ground in the mountains of western China contain the oldest clear evidence of cannabis smoking yet found, archaeologists say.
Residues of high potency cannabis found in the burners, and on charred pebbles placed inside them, suggest that funeral rites at the 2,500-year-old Jirzankal cemetery in the Pamir mountains may have been rather hazy affairs.
Some of the 200 chickens sent to Great Barrier Island to decimate a population of intrusive Australian skinks.
Two-hundred chickens are being hailed as heroes for decimating a population of intrusive Australian pests on Great Barrier Island, while providing tens of thousands of eggs to Aucklanders in need.
Mercury (writing, knowledge through reason, scientific) opposite Quaoar (birds (native species)) square Makemake (birds, eggs).
The chicken army was sent from the mainland to sort out the plague of skinks on the Hauraki Gulf island, and they provided more than 60,000 free-range eggs to the Auckland City Mission while they were at it.
Auckland Council's Great Barrier biosecurity advisor Shanti Morgan said the novel idea came about after suggestions by local landowners, who'd heard about domestic ducks controlling things like snails.
Monique, the hen who is sailing around the world. Photo: Guirec Soudee
It's a tale of perfect camaraderie and of co-dependence. Two years at sea have fostered a close relationship between the two fellow sailors as they cross the globe, through warm weather and cold. One is a 24-year-old male. The other is a hen.
Mercury (self-expression, travel) conjunct & Mars (venturesome, male archetype) opposite Sedna (cleansing in the sea, the Arctic) sextile Salacia (things that take refuge in the sea) trine Makemake (birds, eggs) trine Logos (commitment to self-nurturing and cause).
Guirec Soudee - the 24-year-old - is the one who does most of the hard work on board the boat. Monique is the hen, who spends most of her time admiring the view from the deck, and laying the occasional egg.
Guirec, who is from Brittany in France, began his trip around the world with Monique in May 2014.
Water man of India' Rajendra Singh bags top prize. Photo: Tarun Bharat Sangh
An award known as "the Nobel Prize for water" has been given to an Indian campaigner who has brought water to 1,000 villages. The methods are based on an ancient Indian technique.
Sun (honor, recognition) opposite Makemake (interested in invoking insight and inspiration) square Hades (ancient technique). Occultation of Uranus by the Moon.
AThe judges of the Stockholm Water Prize say his methods have also prevented floods, restored soil and rivers, and brought back wildlife.
Discovery
2005 FY9/136472 Makemake is a dwarf planet and perhaps the largest Kuiper belt object (KBO) in the classical population, with a diameter that is about 2/3 the size of Pluto. Makemake has no known satellites, which makes it unique among the largest KBOs and means that its mass can only be estimated.
Makemake was discovered on March 31, 2005, by a team led by Michael E. Brown, and announced on July 29, 2005. Initially, it was known as 2005 FY9 and later given the minor-planet number 136472. Makemake was recognized as a dwarf planet by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in July 2008. Its name derives from Makemake in the mythology of the Rapa Nui people of Easter Island.
