Redqueen is asteroid #17518 and also known as 1992 YD. Redqueen was discovered by the Japanese astronomers Natori Akira (名取 亮) and Urata Takeshi (浦田 武) at the JCPM Yakiimo Station. Redqueen’s orbit is characterized by a semi-major axis of 2.63 Astronomical Units, an eccentricity of 0.08, a period of revolution of 1 556 days, and an inclination of 16.4 degrees. So Redqueen is a common Main Belt Asteroid.

Redqueen is named after a character of the filmed version of Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Characters in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There have a chess theme, while characters in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland have a playing card theme. Alice interacts in the latter with the Queen of Hearts, while the former knows only white and black figures. Filmed versions are usually based on both novels at the same time, so the black chess characters and the Heart colour characters merge to red characters. So the Red Queen is a mix-up of the Black Queen with the Queen of Hearts.

The Red Queen is famous for her sentence: “Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place.” Thus the Red Queen explains her realm to Alice. The famous sentence was adopted by evolutionary biologists as the Red Queen Hypothesis in order to explain the inter-species arms race. This means that all species have to develop further in order to escape from predators, while predators have to develop further because the prey develops further and thus improves its ability to escape. So all species are only able to survive if they continue to develop.

While Pete Carroll most likely alluded already to the theory of evolution, evolutionary biologists requited the favor and alluded to Pete Carroll’s work. When the asteroid 1992 YD was discovered, the Red Queen Hypothesis was already established in biology. So the astrological force Redqueen having desired to hint to it is likely. Redqueen shows competition, evolution, reciprocal actions, and mingling.