Gryphon is asteroid #6136 and also known as 1990 YH. Gryphon was discovered by the Japanese astronomer Natori Akira (名取 亮) and Urata Takeshi (浦田 武) at the JCPM Yakiimo Station. Gryphon is a member of the Hirayama-family Eos.

Gryphon is named after a character from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. But he adopted the gryphon from Antiquity, when the gryphon was known to Egyptians, Babylonians, and Greek. The name is originally grū́ps (γρύψ) in Ancient Greek. This gryphon is also and more frequently spelled griffon or griffin. So Lewis Carroll preferred an older version of the name. He didn’t change anything else in the griffin. The mythical beast has the body and the tail of a lion, but the head, talons, and wings of an eagle. The griffin is very large and very strong, can fly and carry huge weights. Although griffins stayed always popular, no tales seem to be known on them. The gryphon in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is used as a means of public transportation. In this function did I meet griffins also in a computer game.

Because Gryphon is named after a kind of messenger, so Gryphon is a mercurial asteroid. Gryphon can specify in mercurial affairs that transport through the air is meant. Gryphon is feared, so it can hint to the unpleasant aspects of transportation. For example fear of flying, although Perdix should be examined for this, too.