Silver is asteroid #5325 and also known as 1988 JQ. Silver measures approximately 9.4 km in diameter and belongs to the Phocea asteroid-cluster. Silver’s orbit is characterized by a semi-major axis of 2.36 Astronomical Units, an eccentricity of 0.22, a period of revolution of 1’326 days, and an inclination of 23.5 degrees, reminding very much at the Earth’s axial tilt, which causes the seasons and is currently 23.44 degrees. Silver was discovered by the American astronomer Carolyn Jean Spellmann Shoemaker a the Palomar Observatory.

Silver is named after the American geologist Leon Theodore “Lee” Silver. He lived from 1925 until 2022 and was a professor of geology at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). He worked with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and was an instructor to the Apollo 13, 15, 16, and 17 astronaut crews. He taught the astronauts how to perform field geology and naturally was in charge of examining the samples, which the Apollo flights returned from the Moon. Leon Theodore “Lee” Silver thus established lunar field geology as a new scientific discipline. Besides participating in the Apollo program, Leon Theodore “Lee” Silver was specialized in age-dating of crystalline rocks.

Most people represented by an astrological chart won’t have anything to do with lunar field geology. Also age-dating of crystalline rocks isn’t a common activity. The metal silver is much more likely to play a role in lives and in events albeit not everybody comes in touch with it. That the asteroid Silver is named after a geologist should fit in well with the astrological interpretation of Silver as the metal silver. Only its merely suspected deposits are the realm of the asteroid Argentina.