Dike is asteroid #99 and was discovered by Alphonse Louis Nicolas Borrelly. Dike is a common Main Belt Asteroid of the type C. The period of Dike’s orbit is four years and one-hundred-and-twenty-seven days. The eccentricity of Dike’s orbit is 0.197 and the inclination is 13.9 degrees.

Dike is named after Dikē (Δίκη), the Greek goddess of justice and moral order and fair judgement. Already her mother Themis is a goddess of justice, so there are different ideas of justice obviously. Dikē (Δίκη) is one of the Horai of the second generation, so she is the sister of Eunomia and Eirene. They are daughters of Themis and Zeus. Dikē (Δίκη) is depicted as a young, slender woman carrying a physical balance scale and wearing a laurel wreath. While Themis is the personification of divine justice, Dikē (Δίκη) is the personification of human justice. An epithet of Dikē (Δίκη) is Astraia/ Astraea. So the goddess Astraea, the goddess of innocence and purity when the laws are kept, has probably forked off from Dikē (Δίκη). Astraea also has a similar iconography. Dikē (Δίκη) assists Zeus, but she is also the mother of Hesychia (Ἡσυχία), who was invented by the poet Pindar, but is in spite of this known origin accepted as the Greek goddess of silence or tranquility. Hesychia (Ἡσυχία) defends actively peace, silence, or tranquility against all attempts of strife.

Dike should be examined together with the other Horai of the second generation. This means with the astrological forces Eunomia and Irene. Together they are antagonists of Eris. Examining the whole family tree is also never wrong and an even better idea when the astrological forces are connected with Greek mythology. Dike represents human justice, which is as an imperfect copy of divine justice always prone to errors. In questions of justice should hence all astrological forces, which are connected with justice, be examined. The family tree is, like always, also useful for synastries.