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ABBA
ABBA are a Swedish pop group, formed in Stockholm in 1972 by Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad.
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Ah Peku Patera
Ah Peku Patera is a patera, or a complex crater with scalloped edges, on Jupiter's moon Io.
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Albedo feature
An albedo feature is a large area on the surface of a planet (or other solar system body) which shows a contrast in brightness or darkness (albedo) with adjacent areas.
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Amalthea (moon)
Amalthea (Ἀμάλθεια) is the third moon of Jupiter in order of distance from the planet.
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Amazonis Planitia
Amazonis Planitia is one of the smoothest plains on Mars.
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Aphrodite Terra
J.Koulouris,(Esq.),(Planetary Cartographer) Astereion- Orion Project, Celestia.
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Apollo (crater)
Apollo is an enormous impact crater located in the southern hemisphere on the far side of the Moon.
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Apollo program
The Apollo program, also known as Project Apollo, was the third United States human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which accomplished landing the first humans on the Moon from 1969 to 1972.
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Apollonius of Rhodes
Apollonius of Rhodes (Ἀπολλώνιος Ῥόδιος Apollṓnios Rhódios; Apollonius Rhodius; fl. first half of 3rd century BCE), was an ancient Greek author, best known for the Argonautica, an epic poem about Jason and the Argonauts and their quest for the Golden Fleece.
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Arabia Terra
Arabia Terra is a large upland region in the north of Mars that lies mostly in the Arabia quadrangle, but a small part is in the Mare Acidalium quadrangle.
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Argonautica
The Argonautica (translit) is a Greek epic poem written by Apollonius Rhodius in the 3rd century BC.
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Ariel (moon)
Ariel is the fourth-largest of the 27 known moons of Uranus.
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Asteroid
Asteroids are minor planets, especially those of the inner Solar System.
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Astronomical naming conventions
In ancient times, only the Sun and Moon, a few hundred stars and the most easily visible planets had names.
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Bee Gees
The Bee Gees --> were a pop music group formed in 1958.
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Callisto (moon)
Callisto (Jupiter IV) is the second-largest moon of Jupiter, after Ganymede.
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Caloris Montes
The Caloris Montes (Latin for "Heat's Mountains") are a range of mountains on Mercury.
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Cartography
Cartography (from Greek χάρτης chartēs, "papyrus, sheet of paper, map"; and γράφειν graphein, "write") is the study and practice of making maps.
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Cartoon
A cartoon is a type of illustration, possibly animated, typically in a non-realistic or semi-realistic style.
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Cassini Regio
Cassini Regio is the enigmatic dark area that covers the leading half of Saturn's moon Iapetus.
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Castor and Pollux
Castor and Pollux (or in Greek, Polydeuces) were twin brothers and demigods in Greek and Roman mythology, known together as the Dioscuri.
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Ceres (dwarf planet)
Ceres (minor-planet designation: 1 Ceres) is the largest object in the asteroid belt that lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, slightly closer to Mars' orbit.
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Chaos terrain
In astrogeology, chaos terrain (or chaotic terrain) is a planetary surface area where features such as ridges, cracks, and plains appear jumbled and enmeshed with one another.
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Charon (moon)
Charon, also known as (134340) Pluto I, is the largest of the five known natural satellites of the dwarf planet Pluto.
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Chasma
In planetary geology, a chasma (plural: chasmata) is a deep, elongated, steep-sided depression.
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Classical albedo features on Mars
The classical albedo features of Mars are the light and dark features that can be seen on the planet Mars through an Earth-based telescope.
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Collis (planetary nomenclature)
Collis (plural: colles, from the Latin word for "hill") is a small hill or knob on a celestial body.
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Cookies and cream
Cookies and cream (or cookies 'n cream) is a variety of ice cream and milkshake based on flavoring from chocolate cookies.
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Corona (planetary geology)
In planetary geology, a corona (plural: coronae) is an oval-shaped feature.
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Crater chain
A crater chain is a line of craters along the surface of an astronomical body.
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Cryovolcano
A cryovolcano (sometimes informally called an ice volcano) is a type of volcano that erupts volatiles such as water, ammonia or methane, instead of molten rock.
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Deimos (moon)
Deimos (systematic designation: Mars II) is the smaller and outer of the two natural satellites of the planet Mars, the other being Phobos.
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Diacritic
A diacritic – also diacritical mark, diacritical point, diacritical sign, or an accent – is a glyph added to a letter, or basic glyph.
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Dione (moon)
Dione (Διώνη) is a moon of Saturn.
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Divine Comedy
The Divine Comedy (Divina Commedia) is a long narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, begun c. 1308 and completed in 1320, a year before his death in 1321.
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Dorsum Buckland
Dorsum Buckland is a large wrinkle ridge at in Mare Serenitatis on the Moon, 380 km long.
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Dune (franchise)
Dune is a science fiction media franchise that originated with the 1965 novel Dune by Frank Herbert.
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E. M. Antoniadi
Eugène Michel Antoniadi (1 March 1870 – 10 February 1944) was a Greek astronomer.
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Enceladus
Enceladus is the sixth-largest moon of Saturn.
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Enki Catena
Enki Catena (Assyro-Babylonian, Principal water god of the Apsu) is a crater chain on Ganymede measuring long.
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Eos Chasma
Eos Chasma is a chasma in the southern part of the Valles Marineris canyon system of the Coprates quadrangle and the Margaritifer Sinus quadrangles of the planet Mars.
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Epimetheus (moon)
Epimetheus is an inner satellite of Saturn.
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Europa (moon)
Europa or as Ευρώπη (Jupiter II) is the smallest of the four Galilean moons orbiting Jupiter, and the sixth-closest to the planet.
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Facula
A facula (plural: faculae), Latin for "little torch", is literally a "bright spot".
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Fertile Crescent
The Fertile Crescent (also known as the "cradle of civilization") is a crescent-shaped region where agriculture and early human civilizations like the Sumer and Ancient Egypt flourished due to inundations from the surrounding Nile, Euphrates, and Tigris rivers.
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Fossa (geology)
In planetary geology, a fossa (pl. fossae) is a long, narrow depression (trough) on the surface of an extraterrestrial body, such as a planet or moon.
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Foundation series
The Foundation series is a science fiction book series written by American author Isaac Asimov.
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Frank Herbert
Franklin Patrick Herbert, Jr. (October 8, 1920 – February 11, 1986) was an American science fiction writer best known for the novel Dune and its five sequels.
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Gaius Valerius Flaccus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus (died) was a 1st century Roman poet who flourished during the "Silver Age" under the Flavian dynasty, and wrote a Latin Argonautica that owes a great deal to Apollonius of Rhodes' more famous epic.
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Galileo (spacecraft)
Galileo was an American unmanned spacecraft that studied the planet Jupiter and its moons, as well as several other Solar System bodies.
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Ganymede (moon)
Ganymede (Jupiter III) is the largest and most massive moon of Jupiter and in the Solar System.
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Geology
Geology (from the Ancient Greek γῆ, gē, i.e. "earth" and -λoγία, -logia, i.e. "study of, discourse") is an earth science concerned with the solid Earth, the rocks of which it is composed, and the processes by which they change over time.
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Giovanni Domenico Cassini
Giovanni Domenico Cassini (8 June 1625 – 14 September 1712) was an Italian (naturalised French) mathematician, astronomer and engineer.
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Giovanni Schiaparelli
Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli FRS(For) HFRSE (14 March 1835 Savigliano – 4 July 1910 Milan) was an Italian astronomer and science historian.
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Gulliver's Travels
Gulliver's Travels, or Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
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Hecates Tholus
Hecates Tholus is a Martian volcano, notable for results from the European Space Agency's Mars Express mission which indicate a major eruption took place 350 million years ago.
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Hydra (moon)
Hydra is the outermost known moon of Pluto.
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Hyperion (moon)
Hyperion (Greek: Ὑπερίων), also known as Saturn VII (7), is a moon of Saturn discovered by William Cranch Bond, George Phillips Bond and William Lassell in 1848.
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Iani Chaos
Iani Chaos is a region of chaos terrain at the south end of the outflow channel Ares Vallis, of the Margaritifer Sinus quadrangle (MC-19) region of the planet Mars, centered at approximately ~342°E, 2°S.
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Iapetus (moon)
Iapetus (Ιαπετός), or occasionally Japetus, is the third-largest natural satellite of Saturn, eleventh-largest in the Solar System, and the largest body in the Solar System known not to be in hydrostatic equilibrium.
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Ice cream
Ice cream (derived from earlier iced cream or cream ice) is a sweetened frozen food typically eaten as a snack or dessert.
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Image resolution
Image resolution is the detail an image holds.
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Impact crater
An impact crater is an approximately circular depression in the surface of a planet, moon, or other solid body in the Solar System or elsewhere, formed by the hypervelocity impact of a smaller body.
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International Astronomical Union
The International Astronomical Union (IAU; Union astronomique internationale, UAI) is an international association of professional astronomers, at the PhD level and beyond, active in professional research and education in astronomy.
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Io (moon)
Io (Jupiter I) is the innermost of the four Galilean moons of the planet Jupiter.
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Io (mythology)
Io (Ἰώ) was, in Greek mythology, one of the mortal lovers of Zeus.
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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University.
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J. R. R. Tolkien
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, (Tolkien pronounced his surname, see his phonetic transcription published on the illustration in The Return of the Shadow: The History of The Lord of the Rings, Part One. Christopher Tolkien. London: Unwin Hyman, 1988. (The History of Middle-earth; 6). In General American the surname is also pronounced. This pronunciation no doubt arose by analogy with such words as toll and polka, or because speakers of General American realise as, while often hearing British as; thus or General American become the closest possible approximation to the Received Pronunciation for many American speakers. Wells, John. 1990. Longman pronunciation dictionary. Harlow: Longman, 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor who is best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.
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James Clerk Maxwell
James Clerk Maxwell (13 June 1831 – 5 November 1879) was a Scottish scientist in the field of mathematical physics.
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Janus (moon)
Janus is an inner satellite of Saturn.
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Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin.
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Jupiter
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System.
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Kerberos (moon)
Kerberos is a small natural satellite of Pluto, about in its longest dimension.
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Le Morte d'Arthur
Le Morte d'Arthur (originally spelled Le Morte Darthur, Middle French for "the death of Arthur") is a reworking of existing tales by Sir Thomas Malory about the legendary King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, Merlin, and the Knights of the Round Table.
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Ligeia Mare
Ligeia Mare is a lake in the north polar region of Titan, the planet Saturn's largest moon.
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List of adjectivals and demonyms of astronomical bodies
The adjectival forms of the names of astronomical bodies are not always easily predictable.
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List of coronae on Venus
This is a list of named coronae on Venus.
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List of craters on Mercury
This is a list of named craters on Mercury, the innermost planet of the Solar System (for other features, see list of geological features on Mercury).
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List of craters on Venus
This is a list of craters on Venus, named by the International Astronomical Union's (IAU) Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature.
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List of geological features on Mercury
List of geological features on Mercury is an itemization of mountains, valleys, craters and other landform features of the planet Mercury.
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List of geological features on Venus
This is a list of geological features on Venus.
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List of Labes on Mars
Labes (plural: labes) is a Latin word used by exogeologists to refer to chaotic regions, featuring ridges and steep valleys, in the Valles Marineris region of Mars.
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List of montes on Venus
This is a list of montes (mountains, singular mons) on the planet Venus.
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List of rocks on Mars
This is an alphabetical list of named rocks (and meteorites) found on Mars, by mission.
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List of spaceflight-related accidents and incidents
This article lists verifiable spaceflight-related accidents and incidents resulting in fatality or near-fatality during flight or training for manned space missions, and testing, assembly, preparation or flight of manned and unmanned spacecraft.
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List of terrae on Venus
This is a list of terrae, or major landmasses, on Venus. In accordance to the International Astronomical Union's rules of planetary nomenclature, they are named after goddesses of love.
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Lists of geological features of the Solar System
This is a directory of lists of geological features on planets excepting Earth, moons and asteroids ordered by increasing distance from the Sun.
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Lunar mare
The lunar maria (singular: mare) are large, dark, basaltic plains on Earth's Moon, formed by ancient volcanic eruptions.
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Macula (planetary geology)
Macula (pl. maculae) is the Latin word for 'spot'.
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Mare Erythraeum
Mare Erythraeum is a very large dark dusky region of Mars that can be viewed by even a small telescope.
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Mare Moscoviense
Mare Moscoviense ("Sea of Moscow") is a lunar mare that sits in the Moscoviense basin.
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Mars
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and the second-smallest planet in the Solar System after Mercury.
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Maxwell Montes
Maxwell Montes is a mountain massif on the planet Venus, of which a peak (Skadi Mons) is the highest point on the planet's surface.
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Mensa (geology)
In planetary geology, a mensa (pl. mensae) is a flat-topped prominence with cliff-like edges.
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Mercury (planet)
Mercury is the smallest and innermost planet in the Solar System.
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Mesa
Mesa (Spanish and Portuguese for table) is the American English term for tableland, an elevated area of land with a flat top and sides that are usually steep cliffs.
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Middle-earth
Middle-earth is the fictional setting of much of British writer J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium.
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Mimas (moon)
Mimas, also designated Saturn I, is a moon of Saturn which was discovered in 1789 by William Herschel.
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Miranda (moon)
Miranda, also designated Uranus V, is the smallest and innermost of Uranus's five round satellites.
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Mons (planetary nomenclature)
Mons (plural: montes, from the Latin word for "mountain") is a mountain on a celestial body.
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Moon
The Moon is an astronomical body that orbits planet Earth and is Earth's only permanent natural satellite.
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Naming of moons
The naming of moons has been the responsibility of the International Astronomical Union's committee for Planetary System Nomenclature since 1973.
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Natural satellite
A natural satellite or moon is, in the most common usage, an astronomical body that orbits a planet or minor planet (or sometimes another small Solar System body).
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Neptune
Neptune is the eighth and farthest known planet from the Sun in the Solar System.
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Neptune (mythology)
Neptune (Neptūnus) was the god of freshwater and the sea in Roman religion.
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Nereid
In Greek mythology, the Nereids (Νηρηΐδες Nereides, sg. Νηρηΐς Nereis) are sea nymphs (female spirits of sea waters), the 50 daughters of Nereus and Doris, sisters to Nerites.
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Nereid (moon)
Nereid is the third-largest moon of Neptune.
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Nix (moon)
Nix is a natural satellite of Pluto.
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Oberon (moon)
Oberon, also designated, is the outermost major moon of the planet Uranus.
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Oceanus Procellarum
Oceanus Procellarum (Latin for "Ocean of Storms") is a vast lunar mare on the western edge of the near side of the Moon.
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Patera (planetary nomenclature)
Patera (plural: paterae) is an irregular crater, or a complex crater with scalloped edges on a celestial body.
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Patrick Star
Patrick Star is a fictional character in the American animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants.
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Phobos (moon)
Phobos (systematic designation) is the innermost and larger of the two natural satellites of Mars, the other being Deimos.
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Phoebe (moon)
Phoebe (Greek: Φοίβη Phoíbē) is an irregular satellite of Saturn with a mean diameter of 213 km.
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Phoebe (mythology)
In ancient Greek religion, Phoebe (Greek: Φοίβη Phoibe, associated with Phoebos or "shining") was one of the first generation of Titans, who were one set of sons and daughters of Uranus and Gaia.
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Plain
In geography, a plain is a flat, sweeping landmass that generally does not change much in elevation.
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Planet
A planet is an astronomical body orbiting a star or stellar remnant that is massive enough to be rounded by its own gravity, is not massive enough to cause thermonuclear fusion, and has cleared its neighbouring region of planetesimals.
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Planum Boreum
Planum Boreum (Latin: "the northern plain") is the northern polar plain on Mars.
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Plateau
In geology and physical geography a plateau (or; plural plateaus or plateaux),is also called a high plain or a tableland, it is an area of a highland, usually consisting of relatively flat terrain that is raised significantly above the surrounding area, often with one or more sides with steep slopes.
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Pluto
Pluto (minor planet designation: 134340 Pluto) is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of bodies beyond Neptune.
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Poseidon
Poseidon (Ποσειδῶν) was one of the Twelve Olympians in ancient Greek religion and myth.
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Proteus (moon)
Proteus (Greek: Πρωτεύς), also known as Neptune VIII, is the second-largest Neptunian moon, and Neptune's largest inner satellite.
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Public domain
The public domain consists of all the creative works to which no exclusive intellectual property rights apply.
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Puck (moon)
Puck is an inner moon of Uranus.
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Rhea (moon)
Rhea (Ῥέᾱ) is the second-largest moon of Saturn and the ninth-largest moon in the Solar System.
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Rosaly Lopes
Rosaly M. C. Lopes (born 8 January 1957 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a planetary geologist, volcanologist, an author of numerous scientific papers and several books, as well as a proponent of education.
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Rupes
Rupes is the Latin word for 'cliff' (the same form rupes is both singular and plural).
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Saturn
Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second-largest in the Solar System, after Jupiter.
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Scopulus
In planetary geology, a scopulus (pl. scopuli, from Greek σκόπελος "peak") is a lobate or irregular escarpment.
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Selenography
Selenography is the study of the surface and physical features of the Moon.
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Sinus Meridiani
Sinus Meridiani is an albedo feature on Mars stretching east-west just south of that planet's equator.
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Solar deity
A solar deity (also sun god or sun goddess) is a sky deity who represents the Sun, or an aspect of it, usually by its perceived power and strength.
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Space probe
A space probe is a robotic spacecraft that does not orbit the Earth, but, instead, explores further into outer space.
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SpongeBob SquarePants
SpongeBob SquarePants is an American animated television series created by marine biologist and animator Stephen Hillenburg for Nickelodeon.
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Styx (moon)
Styx is a small natural satellite of Pluto whose discovery was announced on 11 July 2012.
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Swift (Deimian crater)
Swift crater is a crater on Mars's moon Deimos.
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Telescope
A telescope is an optical instrument that aids in the observation of remote objects by collecting electromagnetic radiation (such as visible light).
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Tethys (moon)
Tethys (or Saturn III) is a mid-sized moon of Saturn about across.
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The Planetary Society
The Planetary Society is an American internationally active, non-governmental, nonprofit foundation.
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Thebe (moon)
Thebe (Θήβη) also known as, is the fourth of Jupiter's moons by distance from the planet.
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Tholus
In planetary nomenclature, a tholus (pl. tholi) is a small domical mountain or hill.
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Thomas Malory
Sir Thomas Malory (c. 1415 – 14 March 1471) was an English writer, the author or compiler of Le Morte d'Arthur (originally titled, The Whole Book of King Arthur and His Noble Knights of the Round table).
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Titan (moon)
Titan is the largest moon of Saturn.
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Titania (moon)
No description.
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Toponymy
Toponymy is the study of place names (toponyms), their origins, meanings, use, and typology.
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Traditional English pronunciation of Latin
The traditional English pronunciation of Latin, and Classical Greek words borrowed through Latin, is the way the Latin language was traditionally pronounced by speakers of English until the early 20th century.
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Triton (moon)
Triton is the largest natural satellite of the planet Neptune, and the first Neptunian moon to be discovered.
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Umbriel (moon)
Umbriel is a moon of Uranus discovered on October 24, 1851, by William Lassell.
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Uranus
Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun.
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Valles Marineris
Valles Marineris (Latin for Mariner Valleys, named after the Mariner 9 Mars orbiter of 1971–72 which discovered it) is a system of canyons that runs along the Martian surface east of the Tharsis region.
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Vastitas Borealis
Vastitas Borealis (Latin, 'northern waste') is the largest lowland region of Mars.
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Venus
Venus is the second planet from the Sun, orbiting it every 224.7 Earth days.
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Volcanology of Io
Volcanology of Io, a moon of Jupiter, is the scientific study of lava flows, volcanic pits, and volcanism (volcanic activity) on the surface of Io.
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Voltaire
François-Marie Arouet (21 November 1694 – 30 May 1778), known by his nom de plume Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher famous for his wit, his attacks on Christianity as a whole, especially the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion, freedom of speech and separation of church and state.
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Voltaire (crater)
Voltaire is an impact crater on Mars's moon Deimos and is approximately across.
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Wadi
Wadi (wādī; ואדי), alternatively wād (وَاد), is the Arabic and Hebrew term traditionally referring to a valley.
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Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a multilingual, web-based, free encyclopedia that is based on a model of openly editable content.
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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised)—23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as both the greatest writer in the English language, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.
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Wrinkle ridge
A wrinkle ridge is a type of feature commonly found on lunar maria.
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21 Lutetia
Lutetia is a large asteroid in the asteroid belt of an unusual spectral type.
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243 Ida
243 Ida is an asteroid in the Koronis family of the asteroid belt.
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25143 Itokawa
25143 Itokawa (イトカワ,いとかわ,糸川) is a stony sub-kilometer asteroid, classified as near-Earth object of the Apollo group and potentially hazardous asteroid, that measures approximately 350 meters in diameter.
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253 Mathilde
253 Mathilde is an asteroid in the intermediate asteroid belt, approximately 50 kilometers in diameter, that was discovered by Austrian astronomer Johann Palisa at Vienna Observatory on 12 November 1885.
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4 Vesta
Vesta, minor-planet designation 4 Vesta, is one of the largest objects in the asteroid belt, with a mean diameter of.
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433 Eros
433 Eros, provisional designation, is a stony and elongated asteroid of the Amor group and the first discovered and second-largest near-Earth object with a mean-diameter of approximately 16.8 kilometers.
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951 Gaspra
951 Gaspra is an S-type asteroid that orbits very close to the inner edge of the asteroid belt.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_nomenclature
