Saturday 17 September 2005

(38083) Rhadamanthus, get the truth told

(38083) Rhadamanthus is a Kuiper belt object discovered in April of 1999. The orbit is between Neptune and the Kuiper belt. It has a perihelion of 33.2 AU and an aphelion of 45.1 AU. It has an inclination of 12.7º. It has a diameter of about 200 km.

 
Greek mythology

Rhadamanthus was a judge of the underworld.
 

From a symbolic point of view, underworld means "after death", which implies that Rhadamanthus is oriented to cases that were closed during life or never opened, like in the Japanese anime "Judge (Yami No Shihookan) " (1991).
 
The main theme of (38083) Rhadamanthus is to obtain the truth about something left in the past, like at the beginning of the movie "The Matrix" (1999), or "Sixth Sense" (1999).


Interviews and interrogatories

To identify with the other person and understand their experiences, (38083) Rhadamanthus follows a very structured and sophisticated procedure, which allows him to weigh the relevance of the information he obtains during the interview.

In other words, (38083) Rhadamanthus is an expert in interrogating difficult subjects.

(38083) Rhadamanthus and (208996) 2003 AZ84
"Judge (Yami No Shihookan)" (1991) [Japanese, English subtitles]