Oceanographer
Robert Ballard
Found the wreck of the Titanic in 1985, on a mission whose real purpose was locating two lost American submarines.
Robert Duane Ballard is an American retired Navy officer and a professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island who is noted for his work in underwater archaeology and marine geology. He is best known by the general public for the discoveries of the wrecks of the RMS Titanic in 1985, the battleship Bismarck in 1989, and the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown in 1998. He discovered the wreck of John F. Kennedy's PT-109 in 2002 and visited Biuku Gasa and Eroni Kumana, who saved its crew.
- Born
- 1942-06-30, Wichita, USAA Tuesday
- At birth
- Sun in Cancer, Moon in Aquarius
- Nationality
- United States
- Birth-time source
- No birth time on record: Rodden X
Born
At birth
Nationality
Birth-time sourceBirth Chart
1942-06-30, Wichita, USA · time unknown, noon chart
America/Chicagothe zone used then
America/ChicagoThe chart
| Body | Sign | Degree | Motion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Cancer | 8°15′ | Direct |
| Moon | Aquarius | 9°14′ | Direct |
| Mercury | Gemini | 18°28′ | Direct |
| Venus | Gemini | 3°15′ | Direct |
| Mars | Leo | 10°14′ | Direct |
| Jupiter | Cancer | 4°37′ | Direct |
| Saturn | Gemini | 6°40′ | Direct |
| Uranus | Gemini | 2°36′ | Direct |
| Neptune | Virgo | 27°13′ | Direct |
| Pluto | Leo | 4°34′ | Direct |
Robert Ballard is alive, so there is one chart here rather than two. The death chart is cast for a documented moment of death and there is nothing to cast one for, which is the point: this site does not estimate either end.
Their Astrocartography
Where each planet sat on one of the four angles at the moment Robert Ballard was born. Tap a line to read what the tradition associates with it.
Cast for noon, as the birth time is unknown, so the longitudes are approximate.