8061 Gaudium
This minor planet is named after the Latin word gaudi, meaning joy, delight, gladness, and pleasure. It was intended to be the opposite of the minor planet 5708 Melancholia. Accordingly, the symbol of this minor planet is the inverted symbol of Melancholia: an irregular pentagon shape pointing upward, with a horizontal line crossing near the point (now representing lightness and airiness as in alchemical symbol for air), above a small cross (now jovial as in Jupiter, instead of saturnine as in Saturn.) |
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