Monday: YLE news reports a rare bird sighting (fewer than ten times in Europe outside Russia) in a locale known for its strategic value. The passerine bird Emberiza pallasi, commonly called Pallas’s reed bunting, is named after a Prussian zoologist/botanist/taxonomist whose surname also is given to streets in Berlin, a city in Volgograd Oblast, an asteroid, and a meteorite metal called pallasite.
Asteroid Petsimpallas, January 30, 1992, Atacama Desert, 00:00:
Ceres 9° 09′ conjunct North Node 9° 39′ Capricorn
Saturn 9° 16′ conjunct Sun 9° 28′ Aquarius
Peter Simon Pallas, September 22, 1741, Berlin, 00:00:
Pluto 9° 42′ Scorpio trine Neptune 9° 43′ Cancer
Tuesday, May 21, 2019 (CDT):
Sun ingress Gemini 2:59
Mercury ingress Gemini 5:52
Sun conjunct Mercury 8:07
Images: Porkkalanniemi, Ninaras, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia