Typhon forms together with Echidna a double asteroid system and would hence be better called Typhon-Echidna. Typhon counts as asteroid #42355 and as the first discovered double asteroid system in the class of the centaurs, although Typhon-Echidna is actually a Kuiper Belt Object. Typhon’s orbital plane is inclined by only 2.43° towards the ecliptic. Typhon’s perihel is more proximate than that of Uranus, but the aphel more distant than those of plutinos. This seems to justify an arbitrary classification as a centaur, although there isn’t any orbital resonance found with Uranus or Saturn as centaurs should have. Typhon’s orbital period is 234 years and nine months, this means in the magnitude of typical Kuiper Belt objects and shorter than that of Pluto-Charon. Typhon-Echidna would deserve at least as much attention as Pluto-Charon.

Typhon is named after a monster in Greek mythology. After the Olympian gods had won wars against the giants and against the titans and killed most of them, the primordial goddess Gaia, who’s the mother of the giants and the mother of the titans, wanted revenge and hence gave birth to Typhon, who is a mixture between a giant and many serpents and dragons. This Typhon went against Zeus, but was finally also defeated by the Olympian gods. A variant of the tale makes Hera the mother of Typhon because Hera was jealous that Zeus had born Athene out of his head, so Hera wanted to give birth to a more dangerous entity. Before Typhon went against Zeus, in any tale, he partnered with the sea monster Echidna, who then gave birth to the hellhound Kerberos, to the Sphinx, to the two-headed dog Orthos, to the Chimera or Chimaira, to the Hydra, to the eagle Aithon, and to the Nemean Lion. In other versions of the tales is Orthos the father of the Sphinx or of the Nemean Lion. So Typhon-Echidna is mainly themed about making monsters.

Typhon is currently at twelve and a half degrees of Scorpio. Typhon seems to indicate the creation of monsters, but this categorization is always subjective and judgemental. Themes of monsters, at least when they are indicated by slow moving and hence societal celestial objects, could have to do with arbitrary judgements, which affect the progression of society. Of course I’d be glad if there would be more research.

[edit: removed a typo]