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A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy written by William Shakespeare in 1595/96.

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A World Out of Time

A World Out of Time is a science fiction novel by Larry Niven and published in 1976.

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Abaddon's Gate

Abaddon's Gate is a science fiction novel by James S. A. Corey (pen name of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck).

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Aban

Apas (āpas) is the Avestan language term for "the waters", which, in its innumerable aggregate states, is represented by the Apas, the hypostases of the waters.

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Accidental dignity

In astrology, accidental dignity occurs when a planet gains strength for any reason other than its zodiacal position.

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Accretion (astrophysics)

In astrophysics, accretion is the accumulation of particles into a massive object by gravitationally attracting more matter, typically gaseous matter, in an accretion disk.

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Actinide

The actinide or actinoid (IUPAC nomenclature) series encompasses the 15 metallic chemical elements with atomic numbers from 89 to 103, actinium through lawrencium.

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Adolf Patera

Adolf Patera (11 July 1819 Vienna – 26 June 1894), was a Bohemian chemist, mineralogist and metallurgist, best known for the important role he played in the utilisation of uranium in colour production in glass, and associated with silver extraction from the mines at Joachimsthal, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, now known as Jáchymov.

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Adrien-Marie Legendre

Adrien-Marie Legendre (18 September 1752 – 10 January 1833) was a French mathematician.

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Advanced Stirling radioisotope generator

The advanced Stirling radioisotope generator (ASRG) was a radioisotope power system first developed at NASA's Glenn Research Center.

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Al Aaraaf

"Al Aaraaf" is an early poem by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1829.

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Alan Hale (astronomer)

Alan Hale (born March 7, 1958) is an American professional astronomer, best known for his co-discovery of Comet Hale–Bopp along with amateur astronomer Thomas Bopp.

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Alchemical symbol

Alchemical symbols, originally devised as part of alchemy, were used to denote some elements and some compounds until the 18th century.

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Aldebaran

Aldebaran, designated Alpha Tauri (α Tauri, abbreviated Alpha Tau, α Tau), is an orange giant star located about 65 light-years from the Sun in the zodiac constellation of Taurus.

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Alexis Bouvard

Alexis Bouvard (27 June 1767 – 7 June 1843) was a French astronomer.

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Alien Legacy

Alien Legacy is a sci-fi strategy game developed by Joe Ybarra|Ybarra Productions and published by Sierra On-Line in 1994 for MS-DOS.

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Alkali metal

The alkali metals are a group (column) in the periodic table consisting of the chemical elements lithium (Li), sodium (Na), potassium (K),The symbols Na and K for sodium and potassium are derived from their Latin names, natrium and kalium; these are still the names for the elements in some languages, such as German and Russian.

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Alkane

In organic chemistry, an alkane, or paraffin (a historical name that also has other meanings), is an acyclic saturated hydrocarbon.

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Alpha Centauri

Alpha Centauri (α Centauri, abbreviated Alf Cen or α Cen) is the star system closest to the Solar System, being from the Sun.

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American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac

The American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac was published for the years 1855 to 1980, containing information necessary for astronomers, surveyors, and navigators.

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Ammonia

Ammonia is a compound of nitrogen and hydrogen with the formula NH3.

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Ammonium

The ammonium cation is a positively charged polyatomic ion with the chemical formula.

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Analemma

In astronomy, an analemma (from Greek ἀνάλημμα analēmma "support") is a diagram showing the variation of the position of the Sun in the sky over the course of a year, as viewed at a fixed time of day and from a fixed location on the Earth.

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Anders Johan Lexell

Anders Johan Lexell (24 December 1740 &ndash) was a Finnish-Swedish astronomer, mathematician, and physicist who spent most of his life in Imperial Russia, where he was known as Andrei Ivanovich Leksel (Андрей Иванович Лексель).

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Andrew Prentice

Andrew Prentice is an Australian mathematician.

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Aneutronic fusion

Aneutronic fusion is any form of fusion power in which neutrons carry no more than 1% of the total released energy.

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Angular diameter

The angular diameter, angular size, apparent diameter, or apparent size is an angular measurement describing how large a sphere or circle appears from a given point of view.

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Apparent magnitude

The apparent magnitude of a celestial object is a number that is a measure of its brightness as seen by an observer on Earth.

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Apparent retrograde motion

Apparent retrograde motion is the apparent motion of a planet in a direction opposite to that of other bodies within its system, as observed from a particular vantage point.

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Application of silicon-germanium thermoelectrics in space exploration

Silicon-germanium (SiGe) thermoelectrics have been used for converting heat into power in spacecraft designed for deep-space NASA missions since 1976.

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Apsis

An apsis (ἁψίς; plural apsides, Greek: ἁψῖδες) is an extreme point in the orbit of an object.

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Arecibo message

The Arecibo message is a 1974 interstellar radio message carrying basic information about humanity and Earth sent to globular star cluster M13 in the hope that extraterrestrial intelligence might receive and decipher it.

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Argis Kalamata

Argis Cultural Athletic Union (translit) is an athletic club in Kalamata, Greece that was founded in 1994.

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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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Asteroid belt

The asteroid belt is the circumstellar disc in the Solar System located roughly between the orbits of the planets Mars and Jupiter.

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Astrological sign

In Western astrology, astrological signs are the twelve 30° sectors of the ecliptic, starting at the vernal equinox (one of the intersections of the ecliptic with the celestial equator), also known as the First Point of Aries.

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Astrological symbols

Symbols used in astrology overlap with those used in astronomy because of the historical overlap between the two subjects.

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Astrological transit

Astrological transits are one of the main means used in horoscopic astrology to forecast future trends and developments (the other means used is astrological progression, which progresses the horoscope forward in time according to set methods).

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Astrology and science

Astrology consists of a number of belief systems that hold that there is a relationship between astronomical phenomena and events or descriptions of personality in the human world.

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Astronomical constant

An astronomical constant is a physical constant used in astronomy.

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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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Astronomical object

An astronomical object or celestial object is a naturally occurring physical entity, association, or structure that exists in the observable universe.

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Astronomical symbols

Astronomical symbols are symbols used to represent astronomical objects, theoretical constructs and observational events in astronomy.

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Astronomy

Astronomy (from ἀστρονομία) is a natural science that studies celestial objects and phenomena.

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Astronomy Domine

"Astronomy Domine" is a song by English rock band Pink Floyd.

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Atmosphere

An atmosphere is a layer or a set of layers of gases surrounding a planet or other material body, that is held in place by the gravity of that body.

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Atmosphere of Uranus

The atmosphere of Uranus is composed primarily of hydrogen and helium.

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Atmospheric optics

Atmospheric optics deals with how the unique optical properties of Earth's atmosphere cause a wide range of spectacular optical phenomena.

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August 1981

The following events occurred in August 1981.

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Auriga (constellation)

Auriga is one of the 88 modern constellations; it was among the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd-century astronomer Ptolemy.

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Aurora

An aurora (plural: auroras or aurorae), sometimes referred to as polar lights, northern lights (aurora borealis) or southern lights (aurora australis), is a natural light display in the Earth's sky, predominantly seen in the high-latitude regions (around the Arctic and Antarctic).

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Auroral kilometric radiation

Auroral kilometric radiation (AKR) is the intense radio radiation emitted in the acceleration zone (at a height of three times the radius of the Earth) of the polar lights.

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Axial tilt

In astronomy, axial tilt, also known as obliquity, is the angle between an object's rotational axis and its orbital axis, or, equivalently, the angle between its equatorial plane and orbital plane.

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Östen Bergstrand

Carl Östen Emanuel Bergstrand (September 1, 1873 – September 27, 1948) was a Swedish astronomer.

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Baak Maan Fu Yung

Baak Maan Fu Yung (Cantonese Yale: baak3 maan6 fu3 yung1, Jyutping: baak3 maan6 fu3 jung1, literally The Millionaire, also had the English words of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire surrounding the Chinese title) is a Hong Kong game show, based on the original British format of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?.

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Barnaba Oriani

Barnaba Oriani FRS FRSE (17 July 1752 – 12 November 1832) was an Italian priest, geodesist, astronomer and scientist.

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Belinda (moon)

Belinda is an inner satellite of the planet Uranus.

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Benefic planet

The term ‘benefic’ is derived from the Greek term agathopoios which literally means “good-doer”.

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Bengali science fiction

Bengali science fiction (বাংলা বিজ্ঞান কল্পকাহিনী) is a part of Bengali literature containing science fiction elements.

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Benjamin Valz

Jean Elias Benjamin Valz (May 27, 1787 – April 22, 1867) was a French astronomer.

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Berlin Observatory

The Berlin Observatory (Berliner Sternwarte) is a German astronomical institution with a series of observatories and related organizations in and around the city of Berlin in Germany, starting from the 18th century.

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Bianca (moon)

Bianca is an inner satellite of Uranus.

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Binoculars

Binoculars or field glasses are two telescopes mounted side-by-side and aligned to point in the same direction, allowing the viewer to use both eyes (binocular vision) when viewing distant objects.

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Bio of a Space Tyrant

Bio of a Space Tyrant series is a six-book science-fiction series by Piers Anthony based within the solar system.

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Blasto (video game)

Blasto is a third-person shooter game developed by Sony Interactive Entertainment and published by Sony Computer Entertainment America for the Sony PlayStation in 1998.

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Boggart

Boggart is one of numerous related terms used in English folklore for either a household spirit or a malevolent genius loci inhabiting fields, marshes or other topographical features.

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Bradford A. Smith

Bradford A. Smith (Brad Smith) is an American astronomer and an associate of the International Astronomical Union.

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Brett J. Gladman

Brett James Gladman (born 1966) is a Canadian astronomer, discoverer of moons and minor planets, and a full professor at the University of British Columbia's Department of Physics and Astronomy in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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Brewster Rockit: Space Guy!

Brewster Rockit: Space Guy! is a satirical retro-futuristic comic strip created by Tim Rickard.

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Bronze Age in Romania

The Bronze Age is a period in the Prehistoric Romanian timeline and is sub-divided into Early Bronze Age (c. 3500–2200 BCE), Middle Bronze Age (c.2200–1600/1500 BCE), and Late Bronze Age (c. 1600/1500–1100 BCE).

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Buck Rogers XXVC

Buck Rogers XXVC (sometimes written as Buck Rogers in the 25th Century) is a game setting created by TSR, Inc. in the late 1980s.

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Caliban (moon)

Caliban is the second-largest retrograde irregular satellite of Uranus.

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Captain Underpants and the Attack of the Talking Toilets

Captain Underpants and the Attack of the Talking Toilets is an American children's book (taking the form of a novel) by Dav Pilkey, and the second book in the Captain Underpants book series.

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Carolyn Porco

Carolyn C. Porco (born March 6, 1953) is an American planetary scientist known for her work in the exploration of the outer solar system, beginning with her imaging work on the Voyager missions to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune in the 1980s.

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Cassini retirement

Shown here is Cassini view of Jupiter and Io on January 1, 2001.---> The Cassini space probe was deliberately disposed of via a controlled fall into Saturn's atmosphere on September 15, 2017, ending its nearly two-decade-long mission.

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Centaur (minor planet)

Centaurs are small solar system bodies with a semi-major axis between those of the outer planets.

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Centaur (rocket stage)

Centaur has been designed to be the upper stage of space launch vehicles and is used on the Atlas V. Centaur was the world's first high-energy upper stage, burning liquid hydrogen (LH2) and liquid oxygen (LOX).

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Centaurus

Centaurus is a bright constellation in the southern sky.

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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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Chemical cycling

Chemical cycling describes systems of repeated circulation of chemicals between other compounds, states and materials, and back to their original state, that occurs in space, and on many objects in space including the Earth.

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Chord (astronomy)

In the field of astronomy the term chord typically refers to a line crossing an object which is formed during an occultation event.

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Church of St Laurence, Upton-cum-Chalvey

Saint Laurence's Church is one of three Church of England parish churches in the benefice of Upton-cum-Chalvey, and is the oldest building in the borough of Slough, in Berkshire, England.

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Cirrus cloud

Cirrus (cloud classification symbol: Ci) is a genus of atmospheric cloud generally characterized by thin, wispy strands, giving the type its name from the Latin word cirrus, meaning a ringlet or curling lock of hair.

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Classical planet

In classical antiquity, the seven classical planets are the seven non-fixed astronomical objects in the sky visible to the naked eye: Mars, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, Mercury, the Sun, and the Moon.

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Clearing the neighbourhood

"Clearing the neighbourhood around its orbit" is a criterion for a celestial body to be considered a planet in the Solar System.

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Climate of Uranus

The climate of Uranus is heavily influenced by both its lack of internal heat, which limits atmospheric activity, and by its extreme axial tilt, which induces intense seasonal variation.

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Cloud

In meteorology, a cloud is an aerosol consisting of a visible mass of minute liquid droplets, frozen crystals, or other particles suspended in the atmosphere of a planetary body.

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Cold

Cold is the presence of low temperature, especially in the atmosphere.

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Colonization of the outer Solar System

Many parts of the outer Solar System have been considered for possible future colonization.

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Comet

A comet is an icy small Solar System body that, when passing close to the Sun, warms and begins to release gases, a process called outgassing.

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Comet dust

Comet dust refers to cosmic dust that originates from a comet.

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Confirmation holism

In the epistemology of science, confirmation holism, also called epistemological holism, is the view that no individual statement can be confirmed or disconfirmed by an empirical test, but only a set of statements (a whole theory).

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Cordelia (moon)

Cordelia is the innermost known moon of Uranus.

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Cornell University

Cornell University is a private and statutory Ivy League research university located in Ithaca, New York.

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Corona (planetary geology)

In planetary geology, a corona (plural: coronae) is an oval-shaped feature.

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COROT-7c

COROT-7c is an extrasolar planet which orbits the G-type main sequence star COROT-7, located approximately 489 light years away in the constellation Monoceros.

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Cosmic dust

Cosmic dust, also called extraterrestrial dust or space dust, is dust which exists in outer space, as well as all over planet Earth.

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Cosmology of Tolkien's legendarium

The cosmology of J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium combines aspects of Christian theology and metaphysics, mythology (especially Germanic mythology) and pre-modern cosmological concepts in the flat Earth paradigm with the modern spherical Earth view of the solar system.

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Cosmos (serial novel)

Cosmos is a serial novel consisting of seventeen chapters written by seventeen authors.

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Cosmos and Psyche

Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View is a 2006 book by cultural historian Richard Tarnas, in which the author proposes the existence of relationships between planetary transits and events in the lives of major historical figures, as well as cultural events.

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Cressida (moon)

Cressida (Χρησίδα) is an inner satellite of Uranus.

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Culture of the United Kingdom

The culture of the United Kingdom is influenced by the UK's history as a developed state, a liberal democracy and a great power; its predominantly Christian religious life; and its composition of four countries—England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland—each of which has distinct customs, cultures and symbolism.

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Cumulus cloud

Cumulus clouds are clouds which have flat bases and are often described as "puffy", "cotton-like" or "fluffy" in appearance.

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Cupid (moon)

Cupid is an inner satellite of Uranus.

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Cyan

Cyan is a greenish-blue color.

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Dan Milisavljevic

Dan Milisavljevic (born January 31, 1980) is a Canadian astronomer and assistant professor of physics and astronomy at Purdue University.

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Dance Dance Revolution SuperNova

, released in Europe as Dancing Stage SuperNova, is an arcade and PlayStation 2 game in the Dance Dance Revolution series of music video games.

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Datchet

Datchet is a village and civil parish in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead in Berkshire, England, located on the north bank of the River Thames.

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David Morrison (astrophysicist)

David Morrison (born 26 June 1940) is an American astronomer, a senior scientist at the Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute, at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California.

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David Rittenhouse

David Rittenhouse (April 8, 1732 – June 26, 1796) was an American astronomer, inventor, clockmaker, mathematician, surveyor, scientific instrument craftsman, and public official.

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December 1964

The following events occurred in December 1964.

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Deep Impact (spacecraft)

Deep Impact was a NASA space probe launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 18:47 UTC on January 12, 2005.

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Deferent and epicycle

In the Hipparchian and Ptolemaic systems of astronomy, the epicycle (from ἐπίκυκλος, literally upon the circle, meaning circle moving on another circle) was a geometric model used to explain the variations in speed and direction of the apparent motion of the Moon, Sun, and planets.

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Definition of planet

The definition of planet, since the word was coined by the ancient Greeks, has included within its scope a wide range of celestial bodies.

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Delta-v budget

In astrodynamics and aerospace, a delta-v budget is an estimate of the total delta-''v'' required for a space mission.

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Desdemona (moon)

Desdemona is an inner satellite of Uranus.

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Detriment (astrology)

In astrology, a celestial body is said to be in detriment, or exile, when it is positioned in the zodiac sign opposite the sign it rules (over which it has domicile).

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Diamond

Diamond is a solid form of carbon with a diamond cubic crystal structure.

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Dione (Titaness)

Dione (Διώνη, Diōnē) was an ancient Greek goddess, an oracular TitanessSmith, William.

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Discovery of Neptune

The planet Neptune was mathematically predicted before it was directly observed.

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Domicile (astrology)

In astrology, a planet's domicile (or less commonly house, not to be confused with the astrological house system) is the zodiac sign over which it has rulership.

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Don't Ask Don't Tell (film)

Don't Ask Don't Tell is a 2002 parody film directed by Doug Miles and written by famed gay screenwriter Tex Hauser.

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Duncan Lunan

Duncan Alasdair Lunan, born October 1945, is a Scottish author with emphasis on astronomy, spaceflight and science fiction, undertaking a wide range of writing and speaking on those and other topics as a researcher, tutor, critic, editor, lecturer and broadcaster.

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Dwarf planet

A dwarf planet is a planetary-mass object that is neither a planet nor a natural satellite.

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Earth mass

Earth mass (where ⊕ is the standard astronomical symbol for planet Earth) is the unit of mass equal to that of Earth.

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Earth-grazing meteoroid of 13 October 1990

On 13 October 1990, meteoroid EN131090, with an estimated mass of 44 kg, entered the Earth's atmosphere above Czechoslovakia and Poland and, after a few seconds, returned to space.

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Eclipse

An eclipse is an astronomical event that occurs when an astronomical object is temporarily obscured, either by passing into the shadow of another body or by having another body pass between it and the viewer.

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Edwin McMillan

Edwin Mattison McMillan (September 18, 1907 – September 7, 1991) was an American physicist and Nobel laureate credited with being the first-ever to produce a transuranium element, neptunium.

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Electric sail

An electric sail (also called electric solar wind sail or E-sail) is a proposed form of spacecraft propulsion using the dynamic pressure of the solar wind as a source of thrust.

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Elements of the Cthulhu Mythos

The following tables and lists feature elements of the Cthulhu Mythos, that are often shared between works within that fictional setting.

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Eleventh planet

Eleventh planet (of the Solar System) may refer to Vesta, the eleventh object to be named a planet, later to be reclassified as an asteroid; Uranus, the eleventh planet from the Sun upon Vesta's discovery, though this was quickly superseded by new discoveries; or Haumea, which would be the eleventh planet if the classification advocated by Alan Stern et al. were adopted; or Makemake, which would be the eleventh planet in terms of distance from the Sun, as opposed to order of discovery.

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Elongation (astronomy)

In astronomy, a planet's elongation is the angular separation between the Sun and the planet, with Earth as the reference point.

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Energetic neutral atom

Energetic neutral atom (ENA) imaging, often described as "seeing with atoms", is a technology used to create global images of otherwise invisible phenomena in the magnetospheres of planets and throughout the heliosphere, even to its outer boundary.

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Energy transformation

Energy transformation, also termed as energy conversion, is the process of changing energy from one of its forms into another.

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Epsilon Indi

Epsilon Indi (ε Indi, ε Ind) is a star system approximately 12 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Indus consisting of a K-type main-sequence star, ε Indi A, and two brown dwarfs, ε Indi Ba and ε Indi Bb, in a wide orbit around it.

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Equation of time

The equation of time describes the discrepancy between two kinds of solar time.

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Equatorial bulge

An equatorial bulge is a difference between the equatorial and polar diameters of a planet, due to the force exerted by its rotation.

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Erich Karkoschka

Erich Karkoschka (born 1955) is a planetary researcher at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory of the University of Arizona.

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Erik Prosperin

Erik Prosperin (25 July 1739 – 4 April 1803) was a Swedish astronomer.

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Error correction code

In computing, telecommunication, information theory, and coding theory, an error correction code, sometimes error correcting code, (ECC) is used for controlling errors in data over unreliable or noisy communication channels.

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Error detection and correction

In information theory and coding theory with applications in computer science and telecommunication, error detection and correction or error control are techniques that enable reliable delivery of digital data over unreliable communication channels.

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Escape velocity

In physics, escape velocity is the minimum speed needed for an object to escape from the gravitational influence of a massive body.

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Euonymeia

Euonymeia (Ευωνύμεια, Evonímia), also known by its medieval name Trachones (Τράχωνες), and by its modern colloquial Ano Kalamaki (Άνω Καλαμάκι, Upper Kalamaki), is a historic settlement in Attica and currently a residential neighborhood within the municipality of Alimos on the southern suburbs of Athens, Greece.

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Exploration of Pluto

The exploration of Pluto began with the arrival of the New Horizons probe in July 2015, though proposals for such a mission had been studied for many decades.

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Exploration of Uranus

The exploration of Uranus has, to date, been solely through telescopes and NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft, which made its closest approach to Uranus on January 24, 1986.

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Extraterrestrial atmosphere

The study of extraterrestrial atmospheres is an active field of research, both as an aspect of astronomy and to gain insight into Earth's atmosphere.

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Extraterrestrial diamonds

Although diamonds on Earth are rare, extraterrestrial diamonds (diamonds formed outside of Earth) are very common.

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Extraterrestrial life

Extraterrestrial life,Where "extraterrestrial" is derived from the Latin extra ("beyond", "not of") and terrestris ("of Earth", "belonging to Earth").

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Extraterrestrial liquid water

Extraterrestrial liquid water (from the Latin words: extra and terrestris) is water in its liquid state that naturally occurs outside Earth.

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Extraterrestrial places in the Cthulhu Mythos

The following fictional celestial bodies figure prominently in the Cthulhu Mythos stories of H. P. Lovecraft and other writers.

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Extraterrestrial skies

In astronomy, an extraterrestrial sky is a view of outer space from the surface of a world other than Earth.

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Family Portrait (MESSENGER)

The Solar System Family Portrait is an image of many of the Solar System's planets and moons acquired by MESSENGER during November 2010 from approximately the orbit of Mercury.

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Family Portrait (Voyager)

The Family Portrait, or sometimes Portrait of the Planets, is an image of the Solar System acquired by Voyager 1 on February 14, 1990 from a distance of approximately 6 billion kilometers from Earth.

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Faulkes Telescope South

The Faulkes Telescope South is a clone of the Liverpool Telescope and is located at Siding Spring Observatory in New South Wales, Australia.

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February 1948

The following events occurred in February 1948.

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Ferdinand (moon)

Ferdinand is the outermost retrograde irregular satellite of Uranus.

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First Contact?

First Contact? is a juvenile science fiction novel, the thirteenth in Hugh Walters' Chris Godfrey of U.N.E.X.A. series.

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Five-planet Nice model

The five-planet Nice model is a recent variation of the Nice model that begins with five giant planets, the current four plus an additional ice giant, in a chain of mean-motion resonances.

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Flamsteed designation

A Flamsteed designation is a combination of a number and constellation name that uniquely identifies most naked eye stars in the modern constellations visible from southern England.

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Floating cities and islands in fiction

In speculative fiction, floating cities and islands are a common trope, which range from cities and islands that float on water to ones that float in the atmosphere of a planet by scientific or magical means.

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Formation and evolution of the Solar System

The formation and evolution of the Solar System began 4.6 billion years ago with the gravitational collapse of a small part of a giant molecular cloud.

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Forward error correction

In telecommunication, information theory, and coding theory, forward error correction (FEC) or channel coding is a technique used for controlling errors in data transmission over unreliable or noisy communication channels.

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Francisco (moon)

Francisco is the innermost irregular satellite of Uranus.

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Gardens of the Sun

Gardens of the Sun is a 2009 science fiction novel by Paul J. McAuley.

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Gary L. Bennett

Gary L. Bennett (born January 17, 1940) is an American scientist and engineer, specializing in aerospace and energy.

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Gas giant

A gas giant is a giant planet composed mainly of hydrogen and helium.

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Gemini (constellation)

Gemini is one of the constellations of the zodiac.

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Generational planet

In the field of astrology, generational planets are planets that affect an entire generation of people.

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Geochemistry

Geochemistry is the science that uses the tools and principles of chemistry to explain the mechanisms behind major geological systems such as the Earth's crust and its oceans.

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Geology of Ceres

The geology of Ceres consists of the characteristics of the surface, the crust and the interior of the dwarf planet Ceres.

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Geology of Venus

Venus is a planet with striking geology.

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Georg Hermann Struve

Georg Otto Hermann Struve (Георг Германович Струве; 29 December 1886 – 10 June 1933) was a German astronomer from the Struve family and the son of Hermann Struve.

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George Biddell Airy

Sir George Biddell Airy (27 July 18012 January 1892) was an English mathematician and astronomer, Astronomer Royal from 1835 to 1881.

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George III of the United Kingdom

George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 1738 – 29 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 25 October 1760 until the union of the two countries on 1 January 1801, after which he was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until his death in 1820.

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Gerard Kuiper

Gerard Peter Kuiper (born Gerrit Pieter Kuiper; December 7, 1905 – December 23, 1973) was a Dutch–American astronomer, planetary scientist, selenographer, author and professor.

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Germanium

Germanium is a chemical element with symbol Ge and atomic number 32.

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Germans in the United Kingdom

Germans have been coming to live in the United Kingdom for hundreds of years.

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Gertrude (crater)

Gertrude is the largest known crater on Uranus's moon Titania.

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Giant planet

A giant planet is any massive planet.

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Gliese 176 b

Gliese 176 b is a super-Earth exoplanet approximately 31 light years away in the constellation of Taurus.

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Gliese 436

Gliese 436 is a red dwarf approximately away in the zodiac constellation of Leo.

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Gliese 667 Cc

Gliese 667 Cc (also known as GJ 667Cc, HR 6426Cc, or HD 156384Cc) is an exoplanet orbiting within the habitable zone of the red dwarf star Gliese 667 C, which is a member of the Gliese 667 triple star system, approximately 23.62 light-years (6.8 parsecs, or about 217,000,000,000,000 km) away in the constellation of Scorpius.

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Gliese 674 b

Gliese 674 b is an extrasolar planet approximately 15 light years away in the constellation of Ara.

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Gliese 876

Gliese 876 is a red dwarf approximately 15 light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Aquarius.

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Gliese 876 e

Gliese 876 e is an exoplanet orbiting the star Gliese 876 in the constellation of Aquarius.

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Godzilla: Monster of Monsters

is a Nintendo Entertainment System video game released in the US in 1989 by Toho Co., Ltd.

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Grand Tour program

The Grand Tour was a NASA program that would have sent two groups of robotic probes to all the planets of the outer Solar System.

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Gravity

Gravity, or gravitation, is a natural phenomenon by which all things with mass or energy—including planets, stars, galaxies, and even light—are brought toward (or gravitate toward) one another.

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Gravity assist

In orbital mechanics and aerospace engineering, a gravitational slingshot, gravity assist maneuver, or swing-by is the use of the relative movement (e.g. orbit around the Sun) and gravity of a planet or other astronomical object to alter the path and speed of a spacecraft, typically to save propellant and reduce expense.

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Green star (astronomy)

In astronomy, a green star is a white or blue star that appears green due to an optical illusion.

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Guardians of the directions

The Guardians of the Directions (Sanskrit: दिक्पाल, Dikpāla) are the deities who rule the specific directions of space according to Hinduism and Vajrayāna Buddhism—especially Kālacakra.

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Gyruss

is a fixed shooter arcade game designed by Yoshiki Okamoto and released by Konami in 1983.

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H (disambiguation)

H is the eighth letter of the Latin alphabet.

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Habitability of natural satellites

The habitability of natural satellites is a measure of the potential of natural satellites to have environments hospitable to life.

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Hair (musical)

Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical is a rock musical with a book and lyrics by Gerome Ragni and James Rado and music by Galt MacDermot.

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Halifax, West Yorkshire

Halifax is a minster town in the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale in West Yorkshire, England.

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HaMerotz LaMillion 5

HaMerotz LaMillion (המירוץ למיליון, lit. The Race to the Million) is an Israeli reality television game show based on the American series, The Amazing Race.

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Hamlet (crater)

Hamlet is the largest crater on the known part of the surface of Uranus' moon Oberon.

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HAT-P-1b

HAT-P-1b is an extrasolar planet orbiting the Sun-like star HAT-P-1, also known as ADS 16402 B. HAT-P-1 is the dimmer component of the ADS 16402 binary star system.

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HD 10180

HD 10180 is a Sun-like star in the southern constellation Hydrus that is notable for its large planetary system.

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HD 1461 b

HD 1461 b is an extrasolar planet, orbiting the 6th magnitude G-type star HD 1461, 76 light years away in the constellation Cetus.

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HD 172555

HD 172555 is a white-hot A7V star located relatively close by, 95 light years from Earth in the direction of the constellation Pavo.

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HD 219134 b

HD 219134 b (or HR 8832 b) is one of at least five exoplanets orbiting HR 8832, a main-sequence star in the constellation of Cassiopeia.

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HD 219134 f

HD 219134 f, also known as HR 8832 f, is an exoplanet orbiting around the K-type star HR 8832 in the constellation of Cassiopeia.

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HD 219828 b

HD 219828 b is an extrasolar planet approximately 265 light years away in the constellation of Pegasus.

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HD 38858

HD 38858 is a G-type star with one detected planet.

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HD 40307

HD 40307 is an orange (K-type) main-sequence star located approximately 42 light-years away in the constellation of Pictor (the Easel), taking its primary name from its Henry Draper Catalogue designation.

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HD 40307 b

HD 40307 b is an extrasolar planet orbiting the star HD 40307, located 42 light-years away in the direction of the southern constellation Pictor.

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HD 40307 c

HD 40307 c is an extrasolar planet orbiting the star HD 40307, located 42 light-years away in the direction of the southern constellation Pictor.

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HD 69830

HD 69830 (285 G. Puppis) is a yellow dwarf star located approximately 41 light-years away in the constellation of Puppis.

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HD 69830 d

HD 69830 d is an exoplanet likely orbiting within the habitable zone of the star HD 69830, the outermost of three such planets discovered in the system.

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Heidi Hammel

Heidi B. Hammel (born March 14, 1960) is a planetary astronomer who has extensively studied Neptune and Uranus.

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Hermann Struve

Karl Hermann Struve (October 3, 1854 – August 12, 1920) was a Russian astronomer.

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Herschel

Herschel or Herschell may refer to.

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Herschel Girls' School

Herschel Girls' School is a private, boarding and day school for girls, located in Claremont, a southern suburb of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa.

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Herschel Museum of Astronomy

The Herschel Museum of Astronomy at 19 New King Street, Bath, England, is a museum that was inaugurated in 1981.

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Herschel Space Observatory

The Herschel Space Observatory was a space observatory built and operated by the European Space Agency (ESA).

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Hibiscus (entertainer)

Hibiscus (born George Edgerly Harris III; September 6, 1949 – May 6, 1982) was the founder of the psychedelic gay liberation theater collective known as the Cockettes in early 1970s San Francisco.

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History of astronomy

Astronomy is the oldest of the natural sciences, dating back to antiquity, with its origins in the religious, mythological, cosmological, calendrical, and astrological beliefs and practices of prehistory: vestiges of these are still found in astrology, a discipline long interwoven with public and governmental astronomy, and not completely disentangled from it until a few centuries ago in the Western World (see astrology and astronomy).

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History of gravitational theory

In physics, theories of gravitation postulate mechanisms of interaction governing the movements of bodies with mass.

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History of physics

Physics (from the Ancient Greek φύσις physis meaning "nature") is the fundamental branch of science.

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History of Solar System formation and evolution hypotheses

The history of scientific thought about the Formation and evolution of the Solar System begins with the Copernican Revolution.

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Hohmann transfer orbit

In orbital mechanics, the Hohmann transfer orbit is an elliptical orbit used to transfer between two circular orbits of different radii in the same plane.

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Homopolar generator

A homopolar generator is a DC electrical generator comprising an electrically conductive disc or cylinder rotating in a plane perpendicular to a uniform static magnetic field.

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Hot Neptune

A hot Neptune or Hoptune is a type of giant planet with a mass similar to that of Uranus or Neptune orbiting close to its star, normally within less than 1 AU.

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HR 8799

HR 8799 is a roughly 30 million-year-old main-sequence star located 129 light years (39 parsecs) away from Earth in the constellation of Pegasus.

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HR 8799 e

HR 8799 e is a large exoplanet, orbiting the star HR 8799, which lies 129 lightyears from Earth.

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Human overpopulation

Human overpopulation (or population overshoot) occurs when the ecological footprint of a human population in a specific geographical location exceeds the carrying capacity of the place occupied by that group.

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Hypothetical star

A hypothetical star is a star, or type of star, that is speculated to exist but has yet to be definitively observed.

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I Am a Nightmare

"I Am a Nightmare" is a single by American rock band Brand New, released on 17 May 2016.

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IAU definition of planet

The International Astronomical Union (IAU) defined in August 2006 that, in the Solar System, a planet is a celestial body which.

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Ice giant

An ice giant is a giant planet composed mainly of elements heavier than hydrogen and helium, such as oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur.

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Ice XI

Ice XI is the hydrogen-ordered form of Ih, the ordinary form of ice.

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Inferior and superior planets

In the Solar System, a planet is said to be inferior with respect to another planet if its orbit lies inside the other planet's orbit around the Sun.

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Inigo Owen Jones

Inigo Owen Jones (1 December 1872 – 14 November 1954) was a meteorologist and farmer in Queensland, Australia.

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Inner moon

In astronomy, an inner moon or inner natural satellite is a natural satellite following a prograde, low-inclination orbit inwards of the large satellites of the parent planet.

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Insect from Shaggai

An Insect from Shaggai is a member of a fictional alien race (also known as the Shan) in the Cthulhu Mythos.

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International Ultraviolet Explorer

The International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE) was an astronomical observatory satellite primarily designed to take ultraviolet spectra.

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Invariable plane

The invariable plane of a planetary system, also called Laplace's invariable plane, is the plane passing through its barycenter (center of mass) perpendicular to its angular momentum vector.

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Irregular moon

In astronomy, an irregular moon, irregular satellite or irregular natural satellite is a natural satellite following a distant, inclined, and often eccentric and retrograde orbit.

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J. C. Bhattacharyya

Jagadish Chandra Bhattacharyya, also known as J.C. Bhattacharyya (September 1, 1930 in Calcutta – 4 June 2012 in New Delhi) was an Indian professor well known for his contributions in experimental astrophysics.

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Jack J. Lissauer

Jack Jonathan Lissauer (born 1957) is an American research scientist who has worked for NASA's Ames Research Center since 1996.

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Jagadananda Roy

Jagadananda Roy (জগদানন্দ রায; 1869-1933) was an eminent scientific article writer as well as Bengali science fiction writer.

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James Challis

James Challis FRS (12 December 1803 – 3 December 1882) was an English clergyman, physicist and astronomer.

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January 11

No description.

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Jean Baptiste Aimable Gaillot

Jean Baptiste Aimable Gaillot (27 April 1834 – 4 June 1921) (known as Aimable Gaillot) was an astronomer at the Observatoire de Paris from 1861 to 1903.

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Johann Baptiste Horvath

Johann Baptiste Horvath (Keresztély János Horváth, 13 July 1732 in Kőszeg – 20 October 1799 in Buda) was a Hungarian-born Jesuit Professor of Physics and Philosophy at the University of Trnava (Nagyszombat) in modern-day Slovakia, which was then part of the Kingdom of Hungary.

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Johann Elert Bode

Johann Elert Bode (19 January 1747 – 23 November 1826) was a German astronomer known for his reformulation and popularisation of the Titius–Bode law.

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Johann Franz Encke

Johann Franz Encke (23 September 1791 – 26 August 1865) was a German astronomer.

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Johann Gottfried Galle

Johann Gottfried Galle, 1880 Galle's signature Memorial plaque in Wittenberg Johann Gottfried Galle (9 June 1812 – 10 July 1910) was a German astronomer from Radis, Germany, at the Berlin Observatory who, on 23 September 1846, with the assistance of student Heinrich Louis d'Arrest, was the first person to view the planet Neptune and know what he was looking at.

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Johann Gottfried Koehler

Johann Gottfried Koehler (15 December 1745 – 19 September 1801) was a German astronomer who discovered a number of nebulae, star clusters, and galaxies.

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Johann Hieronymus Schröter

Johann Hieronymus Schröter (30 August 1745, Erfurt – 29 August 1816, Lilienthal) was a German astronomer.

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Johann von Lamont

Johann von Lamont FRSE, also referred to as Johann Lamont (13 December 1805 – 6 August 1879), was a Scottish-German astronomer and physicist.

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John Couch Adams

John Couch Adams (5 June 1819 – 21 January 1892) was a British mathematician and astronomer.

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John Flamsteed

John Flamsteed FRS (19 August 1646 – 31 December 1719) was an English astronomer and the first Astronomer Royal.

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John Herschel

Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Baronet (7 March 1792 – 11 May 1871) was an English polymath, mathematician, astronomer, chemist, inventor, experimental photographer who invented the blueprint, and did botanical work.

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John J. Kavelaars

J-John Kavelaars, better known as JJ Kavelaars (born 1966), is a Canadian astronomer who was part of a team that discovered several moons of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.

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John Pipkin

John George Pipkin is an American author, born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1967.

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John Russell (painter)

John Russell RA (29 March 1745 – 20 April 1806) was an English painter renowned for his portrait work in oils and pastels, and as a writer and teacher of painting techniques.

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Joseph A. Burns

Joseph Burns is a professor at Cornell University with a dual appointment in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) and the Astronomy department.

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Journey to the Seventh Planet

Journey to the Seventh Planet is a 1962 science fiction film.

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Juliet (moon)

Juliet is an inner satellite of Uranus.

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Jumping-Jupiter scenario

The jumping-Jupiter scenario specifies an evolution of giant-planet migration described by the Nice model, in which an ice giant (Uranus, Neptune, or an additional Neptune-mass planet) is scattered inward by Saturn and outward by Jupiter, causing the step-wise separation of their orbits.

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Jupiter

Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System.

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Jupiter mass

Jupiter mass, also called Jovian mass is the unit of mass equal to the total mass of the planet Jupiter.

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Jupiter trojan

The Jupiter trojans, commonly called Trojan asteroids or just Trojans, are a large group of asteroids that share the planet Jupiter's orbit around the Sun.

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Justice Legion Alpha

The Justice Legion Alpha is a DC Comics superhero team, who exist in the far future of the DC Universe.

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K2-141b

K2-141b (also designated EPIC 246393474.01) is a massive rocky exoplanet orbiting extremely close to an orange dwarf star.

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K2-148b

K2-148b is a confirmed Super-Earth, probably rocky, closely orbiting a small orange dwarf star.

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K2-3d

K2-3d, also known as EPIC 201367065 d, is a confirmed massive solid exoplanet orbiting the red dwarf star K2-3, and the outermost of three such planets discovered in the system.

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Kamichama Karin

is a Japanese manga originally written by Koge-Donbo about a seventh grade girl named Karin who finds out that she can transform into a goddess.

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Kapteyn b

Kapteyn b is a possible exoplanet that orbits within the habitable zone of the red subdwarf Kapteyn's star, located approximately from Earth.

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Karl Popper

Sir Karl Raimund Popper (28 July 1902 – 17 September 1994) was an Austrian-British philosopher and professor.

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Kepler-1229b

Kepler-1229b (also known by its Kepler Object of Interest designation KOI-2418.01) is a confirmed super-Earth exoplanet, likely rocky, orbiting within the habitable zone of the red dwarf star Kepler-1229, located about 770 light years (236 parsecs, or nearly km) from Earth in the constellation of Cygnus.

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Kepler-1652b

Kepler-1652b (also known by its Kepler Objects of Interest designation KOI-2626.01) is a super-Earth exoplanet, most likely rocky, orbiting within the habitable zone of the red dwarf Kepler-1652 about 822 light-years away in the Cygnus constellation.

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Kepler-442b

Kepler-442b (also known by its Kepler Object of Interest designation KOI-4742.01) is a confirmed near-Earth-sized exoplanet, likely rocky, orbiting within the habitable zone of the K-type main-sequence star Kepler-442, about 1,120 light-years (342 parsecs, or nearly km) from Earth in the constellation Lyra.

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Kepler-61b

Kepler-61b (also known by its Kepler Object of Interest designation KOI-1361.01) is a super-Earth exoplanet orbiting within parts of the habitable zone of the K-type main-sequence star Kepler-61.

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Kepler-62b

Kepler-62b (also known by its Kepler Object of Interest designation KOI-701.02) is the innermost and the second smallest discovered exoplanet orbiting the star Kepler-62, with a diameter roughly 30% larger than Earth.

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Kepler-62d

Kepler-62d (also known by its Kepler Object of Interest designation KOI-701.01) is the third innermost and the largest exoplanet discovered orbiting the star Kepler-62, with a size roughly twice the diameter of Earth.

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Kepler-62f

Kepler-62f (also known by its Kepler Object of Interest designation KOI-701.04) is a super-Earth exoplanet orbiting within the habitable zone of the star Kepler-62, the outermost of five such planets discovered around the star by NASA's ''Kepler'' spacecraft.

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Kepler-69c

Kepler-69c (also known by its Kepler Object of Interest designation KOI-172.02) is a confirmed super-Earth extrasolar planet, likely rocky, orbiting the Sun-like star Kepler-69, the outermost of two such planets discovered by NASA's Kepler spacecraft.

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Kepler-89e

Kepler-89e, also known as KOI-94e, is an exoplanet in the constellation of Cygnus.

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Known Space

Known Space is the fictional setting of about a dozen science fiction novels and several collections of short stories written by Larry Niven.

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Kree

The Kree, briefly known as the Ruul, are a fictional scientifically and technologically advanced militaristic alien race appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

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Kremsmünster Abbey

Kremsmünster Abbey (Stift Kremsmünster) is a Benedictine monastery in Kremsmünster in Upper Austria.

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Kuiper Airborne Observatory

The Gerard P. Kuiper Airborne Observatory (KAO) was a national facility operated by NASA to support research in infrared astronomy.

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Kuiper belt

The Kuiper belt, occasionally called the Edgeworth–Kuiper belt, is a circumstellar disc in the outer Solar System, extending from the orbit of Neptune (at 30 AU) to approximately 50 AU from the Sun.

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Kuiper Scarp

Kuiper Scarp is an east–west escarpment running along the south face of Uranus Glacier on the east side of Alexander Island, Antarctica.

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Land

Land, sometimes referred to as dry land, is the solid surface of Earth that is not permanently covered by water.

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Large Strategic Science Missions

NASA's Large Strategic Science Missions, formerly known as Flagship missions or Flagship-class missions, are the costliest and most capable NASA science spacecraft.

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Launch window

In the context of spaceflight, launch period is the collection of days and launch window is the time period on a given day during which a particular vehicle (rocket, Space Shuttle, etc.) must be launched in order to reach its intended target.

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Leonhard Euler

Leonhard Euler (Swiss Standard German:; German Standard German:; 15 April 170718 September 1783) was a Swiss mathematician, physicist, astronomer, logician and engineer, who made important and influential discoveries in many branches of mathematics, such as infinitesimal calculus and graph theory, while also making pioneering contributions to several branches such as topology and analytic number theory.

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Letters to a German Princess

Letters to a German Princess, On Different Subjects in Physics and Philosophy (French: Lettres à une princesse d'Allemagne sur divers sujets de physique et de philosophie) were a series of 234 letters written by the mathematician Leonhard Euler between 1760 and 1762 addressed to Friederike Charlotte of Brandenburg-Schwedt and her younger sister Louise.

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Linguistic purism in English

Linguistic purism in the English language is the belief that words of native origin should be used instead of foreign-derived ones (which are mainly Latinate and Greek).

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List of active Solar System probes

This is a list of active space probes which have escaped Earth orbit.

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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 agnostics

Listed here are persons who have identified themselves as theologically agnostic.

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List of alien races in DC Comics

List of alien races in DC Comics is a list of fictional extraterrestrial races that have appeared in comic book titles published by DC Comics, as well as properties from other media that are listed below, with appropriately brief descriptions and accompanying citations.

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List of Animaniacs episodes

The following is an episode list for the Warner Bros. animated television series Animaniacs.

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List of artificial objects leaving the Solar System

Below is a list of artificial objects leaving the Solar System.

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List of atheists in science and technology

This is a list of atheists in science and technology.

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List of Batman: The Brave and the Bold characters

The following is a list of characters that appear in Batman: The Brave and the Bold.

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List of British innovations and discoveries

The following is a list and timeline of innovations as well as inventions and discoveries that involved British people or the United Kingdom including predecessor states in the history of the formation of the United Kingdom.

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List of chemical element name etymologies

This is the list of etymologies for all chemical element names.

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List of chemical elements

, 118 chemical elements are identified.

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List of cloud types

The list of cloud types classifies the tropospheric genera as high (cirrus, cirrocumulus, cirrostratus), middle (altocumulus, altostratus), multi-level (nimbostratus, cumulus, cumulonimbus), and low (stratocumulus, stratus) according to the altitude level or levels at which each is normally found.

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List of continent name etymologies

This is a list of the etymologies of continent names as they are currently found on Earth.

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List of Cornell University faculty

This list of Cornell University faculty includes notable current and former instructors and administrators of Cornell University, an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York.

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List of Dartmouth College alumni

The alumni of Dartmouth College includes currently matriculating students and alumni who are graduates or non-matriculating students of Dartmouth College and its graduate schools.

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List of discoveries

This article presents a list of discoveries and includes famous observations.

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List of Doctor Who planets

This is a list of planets, fictional or otherwise, that are mentioned in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who and its spinoff literature, audio plays, television series and comics.

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List of Dutch inventions and discoveries

The Netherlands had a considerable part in the making of modern society.

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List of English inventions and discoveries

English inventions and discoveries are objects, processes or techniques invented, innovated or discovered, partially or entirely, in England by a person from England (that is, someone born in England - including to non-English parents - or born abroad with at least one English parent and who had the majority of their education or career in England).

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List of Eternals

The Eternals are a race of cosmic beings in Marvel Comics.

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List of European Space Agency programs and missions

The European Space Agency (ESA) operates a number of missions, both operational and scientific, including collaborations with other national space administrations such as the Japanese JAXA, the French CNES, the American NASA, and the Chinese CNSA.

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List of exceptional asteroids

The following is a collection of lists of exceptional asteroids in the Solar System.

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List of Firefly planets and moons

This is a list of fictional planets and moons from the Firefly / Serenity fiction.

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List of future astronomical events

A list of future observable astronomy events.

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List of geological features on Ariel

This list of geological features on Ariel itemizes the named geological features on the moon of Uranus called Ariel.

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List of geological features on Pluto

This is a list of named geological features on Pluto, identified by scientists working with data from the New Horizons spacecraft.

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List of German inventions and discoveries

The following (incomplete) list is composed of items, techniques and processes that were invented by or discovered by people from Germany or German-speaking Europe.

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List of German inventors and discoverers

---- This is a list of German inventors and discoverers.

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List of gravitationally rounded objects of the Solar System

This is a list of gravitationally rounded objects of the Solar System, which are objects that have a rounded, ellipsoidal shape due to the forces of their own gravity (hydrostatic equilibrium).

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List of Greek and Latin roots in English/U

Category:Lists of words.

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List of Greek mythological figures

The following is a list of gods, goddesses and many other divine and semi-divine figures from Ancient Greek mythology and Ancient Greek religion.

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List of Greek place names

This is a list of Greek place names as they exist in the Greek language.

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List of hypothetical Solar System objects

A hypothetical Solar System object is a planet, natural satellite or similar body in the Solar System whose existence is not known, but has been inferred from observational scientific evidence.

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List of Infinite Ryvius characters

The following is a list of fictional characters from the anime Infinite Ryvius.

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List of Irish exonyms

This is list of Irish language exonyms for places outside Ireland.

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List of Jimmy Fallon games and sketches

The following is a list of recurring games, sketches, and other comedy routines from the NBC late night talk show The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, and its predecessor, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.

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List of largest optical telescopes in the 18th century

List of largest optical telescopes in the 18th century, are listings of what were, for the time period of the 18th century, large optical telescopes.

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List of Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni

This list of Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni includes students who studied as undergraduates or graduate students at MIT's School of Engineering; School of Science; MIT Sloan School of Management; School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences; School of Architecture and Planning; or Whitaker College of Health Sciences.

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List of McMaster University people

McMaster University, located in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, is a public research university that was founded in 1887 through funds bequeathed by Canadian Senator, William McMaster.

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List of MeSH codes (H01)

The following is a list of the "H" codes for MeSH.

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List of minor-planet groups

A minor-planet group is a population of minor planets that share broadly similar orbits.

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List of missions to the outer planets

A total of nine spacecraft have been launched on missions that involve visits to the outer planets; all nine missions involve encounters with Jupiter, with four spacecraft also visiting Saturn.

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List of mnemonics

This article contains lists of mnemonics used to remember various objects, lists etc.

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List of multiple discoveries

Historians and sociologists have remarked the occurrence, in science, of "multiple independent discovery".

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List of NASA missions

This is a list of NASA missions, both manned and unmanned, since its establishment in 1958.

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List of natural satellites

The Solar System's planets and officially recognized dwarf planets are known to be orbited by 184 natural satellites, or moons.

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List of objects at Lagrangian points

This is a list of known objects which occupy, have occupied, or are planned to occupy any of the five Lagrangian points of two-body systems in space.

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List of orbits

The following is a list of types of orbits.

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List of people from Bath

This article provides a non-exhaustive list of famous people born, educated or prominent in Bath, Somerset, England, or otherwise associated with the city.

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List of people from Elgin, Illinois

The following list includes notable people who were born or have lived in Elgin, Illinois.

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List of people from Sunderland

This is a list of famous or notable people born in, or associated with, Sunderland or the wider City of Sunderland in North East England.

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List of places used in the names of chemical elements

40 of the 118 chemical elements have names associated with, or specifically named for, places around the world or among astronomical objects.

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List of Rees's Cyclopædia articles

The Cyclopædia; or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature is an important 19th century British encyclopædia edited by Rev.

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List of Russian astronomers and astrophysicists

This list of Russian astronomers and astrophysicists includes the famous astronomers, astrophysicists and cosmologists from the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation.

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List of Russian people

This is a list of people associated with the modern Russian Federation, the Soviet Union, Imperial Russia, Russian Tsardom, the Grand Duchy of Moscow, and other predecessor states of Russia.

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List of Russian scientists

Alona Soschen.

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List of Scottish scientists

List of Scottish engineers and scientists is a list of notable Scottish scientists born in Scotland or associated with Scotland.

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List of Solar System extremes

This article describes extreme locations of the Solar System.

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List of Solar System objects

The following is a list of Solar System objects by orbit, ordered by increasing distance from the Sun.

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List of Solar System objects by size

This is a partial list of Solar System objects by size, arranged in descending order of mean volumetric radius, and subdivided into several size classes.

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List of Solar System probes

This is a list of space probes that have left Earth orbit (or were launched with that intention but failed), organized by their planned destination.

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List of Space: 1999 vehicles

This is a list of spacecraft and other vehicles that appear in Space: 1999, a 1970s British science-fiction television series.

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List of spaceflight records

This is a list of spaceflight records.

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List of stars in Libra

This is the list of notable stars in the constellation Libra, sorted by decreasing brightness.

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List of The Colbert Report episodes (2014)

This is a list of episodes for The Colbert Report in 2014, the final year of the series.

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List of The King of Braves GaoGaiGar characters

This is an index of characters and mecha in the anime and manga The King of Braves GaoGaiGar and The King of Braves GaoGaiGar FINAL.

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List of the most distant astronomical objects

This article documents the most distant astronomical objects so far discovered, and the time periods in which they were so classified.

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List of Titan launches

This is a list of launches made by the LGM-25 Titan ICBMs, and their derivatives.

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List of unnamed fictional presidents of the United States

This list forms part of the Lists of fictional presidents of the United States.

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List of Uranus-crossing minor planets

A Uranus-crosser is a minor planet whose orbit crosses that of Uranus.

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Location of Earth

Knowledge of the location of Earth has been shaped by 400 years of telescopic observations, and has expanded radically in the last century.

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Louise McWhirter

Louise McWhirter was one of the pioneers in financial astrology, which is the use of astrology to forecast the financial markets.

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Lowell Observatory

Lowell Observatory is an astronomical observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, United States.

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Lunar and Planetary Laboratory

The Lunar and Planetary Laboratory (LPL) is a research center for planetary science located in Tucson, Arizona.

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Luyten b

Luyten b (more commonly known as GJ 273b) is a confirmed exoplanet, likely rocky, orbiting within the habitable zone of the nearby red dwarf Luyten's Star.

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Mab (moon)

Mab, or Uranus XXVI (26), is an inner satellite of Uranus.

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Magnetopause

The magnetopause is the abrupt boundary between a magnetosphere and the surrounding plasma.

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Magnetosphere

A magnetosphere is the region of space surrounding an astronomical object in which charged particles are manipulated or affected by that object's magnetic field.

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Magnitude (astronomy)

In astronomy, magnitude is a logarithmic measure of the brightness of an object in a defined passband, often in the visible or infrared spectrum, but sometimes across all wavelengths.

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March 13

No description.

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Margaret (moon)

Margaret is the only prograde irregular satellite of Uranus.

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Mariner program

The Mariner program was a 10-mission program conducted by the American space agency NASA in conjunction with Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).

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Mark R. Showalter

Mark Robert Showalter (born December 5, 1957) is a Senior Research Scientist at the SETI Institute.

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Marvel Boy

Marvel Boy is the name of several fictional comic book characters in comic books published by Marvel Comics, including predecessor companies Timely Comics and Atlas Comics.

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Marvel Boy (Robert Grayson)

Marvel Boy (Robert Grayson), also known as The Uranian, is a fictional character, a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

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Mary Somerville

Mary Somerville (née Fairfax, formerly Greig; 26 December 1780 – 29 November 1872), was a Scottish science writer and polymath.

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Mathematical beauty

Mathematical beauty describes the notion that some mathematicians may derive aesthetic pleasure from their work, and from mathematics in general.

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MAUD Committee

The MAUD Committee was a British scientific working group formed during the Second World War.

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Medical astrology

Medical astrology (traditionally known as iatromathematics) is an ancient medical system that associates various parts of the body, diseases, and drugs as under the influence of the sun, moon, and planets, along with the twelve astrological signs.

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Megaera

Megaera (Ancient Greek: Μέγαιρα, English translation: "the jealous one") is one of the Erinyes, Eumenides or "Furies" in Greek mythology.

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Melia (Oceanid)

In Greek mythology, Melia is the name of one (or two) of the Oceanid daughters of Oceanus and Tethys.

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Mercury (planet)

Mercury is the smallest and innermost planet in the Solar System.

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MESSENGER

Messenger (stylized as MESSENGER, whose backronym is "MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging", and which is a reference to the messenger of the same name from Roman mythology) was a NASA robotic spacecraft that orbited the planet Mercury between 2011 and 2015.

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Mills Observatory

The Mills Observatory in Dundee, Scotland, is the first purpose-built public astronomical observatory in the UK.

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Minerva (disambiguation)

Minerva is the Roman goddess of crafts and wisdom.

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Mini-Neptune

A mini-Neptune or sub-Neptune (sometimes known as a gas dwarf or transitional planet) is a planet of up to 10 Earth masses, less massive than Uranus and Neptune, which have about 14.5 and 17, respectively.

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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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Miranda (The Tempest)

Miranda is one of the principal characters of William Shakespeare's The Tempest.

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Miranda Peaks

The Miranda Peaks are a line of about six peaks trending in a north–south direction on the south side of Uranus Glacier, in eastern Alexander Island, Antarctica.

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Miscellaneous Symbols

Miscellaneous Symbols is a Unicode block (U+2600–U+26FF) containing glyphs representing concepts from a variety of categories: astrological, astronomical, chess, dice, musical notation, political symbols, recycling, religious symbols, trigrams, warning signs, and weather, among others.

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Moment of inertia factor

In planetary sciences, the moment of inertia factor or normalized polar moment of inertia is a dimensionless quantity that characterizes the radial distribution of mass inside a planet or satellite.

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Mommur Chasma

Mommur Chasma is the largest 'canyon' on the known part of the surface of Uranus' moon Oberon.

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Moons of Uranus

Uranus is the seventh planet of the Solar System; it has 27 known moons, all of which are named after characters from the works of William Shakespeare and Alexander Pope.

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Mormon cosmology

Mormon cosmology is the description of the history, evolution, and destiny of the physical and metaphysical universe according to Mormonism, which includes the doctrines taught by leaders and theologians of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), Mormon fundamentalism, the Restoration Church of Jesus Christ, and other Brighamite denominations within the Latter Day Saint movement.

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Mount Ariel

Mount Ariel is a peak, 1,250 m, marking the south limit of Planet Heights and overlooking the north side of Uranus Glacier in the east part of Alexander Island.

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Mount Lassell

Mount Lassell is a snow-covered peak, high, overlooking the head of Neptune Glacier in the southeast part of Alexander Island, Antarctica.

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Mount Umbriel

Mount Umbriel is a peak, rising to about 1,500 m, overlooking the head of Venus Glacier on the east coast of Alexander Island, Antarctica, with the east face of the mountain overlooking the George VI Ice Shelf that occupies George VI Sound.

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Mr. Monk and the Blue Flu

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Mu Arae

Mu Arae (μ Arae, abbreviated Mu Ara, μ Ara), often designated HD 160691, also named Cervantes, is a main sequence G-type star approximately 50 light-years away from the Sun in the constellation of Ara.

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Municipal Borough of Slough

Slough was, from 1863 to 1974, a local government district in southern Buckinghamshire, England.

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MUSE (spacecraft)

MUSE (Mission to Uranus for Science and Exploration) is a European proposal for a dedicated mission to the planet Uranus to study its atmosphere, interior, moons, rings, and magnetosphere.

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My Bride is a Mermaid

is a Japanese manga series written by Tahiko Kimura.

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Naked eye

Naked eye, also called bare eye or unaided eye, is the practice of engaging in visual perception unaided by a magnifying or light-collecting optical instrument, such as a telescope or microscope.

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Name conflicts with minor planets

There are several real or apparent name conflicts between different Solar System bodies, in spite of efforts to give every named body a distinct name.

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Naming of chemical elements

Chemical elements may be named from various sources: sometimes based on the person who discovered it, or the place it was discovered.

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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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NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research.

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NASA Uranus orbiter and probe

A Uranus orbiter and probe is a mission concept for study of the planet Uranus.

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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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Navagraha

Navagraha means "nine planets" in Sanskrit and are nine astronomical bodies as well as mythical deities in Hinduism and Hindu astrology.

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Nebular hypothesis

The nebular hypothesis is the most widely accepted model in the field of cosmogony to explain the formation and evolution of the Solar System (as well as other planetary systems).

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Neil deGrasse Tyson

Neil deGrasse Tyson (born October 5, 1958) is an American astrophysicist, author, and science communicator.

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Neptune

Neptune is the eighth and farthest known planet from the Sun in the Solar System.

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Neptunium

Neptunium is a chemical element with symbol Np and atomic number 93.

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Nereid (moon)

Nereid is the third-largest moon of Neptune.

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New Horizons

New Horizons is an interplanetary space probe that was launched as a part of NASA's New Frontiers program.

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Newcomb's Tables of the Sun

Newcomb's Tables of the Sun is the short title and running head of a work by the American astronomer and mathematician Simon Newcomb entitled "Tables of the Motion of the Earth on its Axis and Around the Sun" on pages 1–169 of "Tables of the Four Inner Planets" (1895), volume VI of the serial publication Astronomical Papers Prepared for the Use of the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac.

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Nibiru cataclysm

The Nibiru cataclysm is a supposed disastrous encounter between the Earth and a large planetary object (either a collision or a near-miss) which certain groups believe will take place in the early 21st century.

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Nice 2 model

The Nice 2 model is a model of the early evolution of the Solar System.

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Nice model

The Nice model is a scenario for the dynamical evolution of the Solar System.

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Nine Views

Nine Views (Devet pogleda) is an ambiental installation in Zagreb, Croatia which, together with the sculpture Prizemljeno Sunce (The Grounded Sun), makes up a consistent model of the Solar System.

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Nyarlathotep

Nyarlathotep is a character in the works of H. P. Lovecraft and other writers.

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Oberon (moon)

Oberon, also designated, is the outermost major moon of the planet Uranus.

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Oberon (programming language)

Oberon is a general-purpose programming language created in 1986 by Niklaus Wirth and the latest member of the Wirthian family of ALGOL-like languages (Euler, Algol-W, Pascal, Modula, and Modula-2).

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Oberon Peak

Oberon Peak is an isolated nunatak, rising to about 1,250 m, at the head of Uranus Glacier and 8 nautical miles (15 km) north-northwest of Titania Peak in central Alexander Island, Antarctica.

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Objections to evolution

Objections to evolution have been raised since evolutionary ideas came to prominence in the 19th century.

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Observational astronomy

Observational astronomy is a division of astronomy that is concerned with recording data about the observable universe, in contrast with theoretical astronomy, which is mainly concerned with calculating the measurable implications of physical models.

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Occultation

An occultation is an event that occurs when one object is hidden by another object that passes between it and the observer.

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Ocean

An ocean (the sea of classical antiquity) is a body of saline water that composes much of a planet's hydrosphere.

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Ocean planet

An ocean planet, ocean world, water world, aquaplanet or panthalassic planet is a type of terrestrial planet that contains a substantial amount of water either at its surface or subsurface.

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Oceanus (Uranus orbiter)

OCEANUS (Origins and Composition of the Exoplanet Analog Uranus System) is a mission concept conceived in 2016 and presented in 2017 as a potential future contestant as a New Frontiers program mission to the planet Uranus.

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October 2014 lunar eclipse

A total lunar eclipse took place on October 8, 2014.

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October 24

No description.

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ODINUS

ODINUS (Origins, Dynamics, and Interiors of the Neptunian and Uranian Systems) is a space mission concept proposed to the European Space Agency's Cosmic Vision programme.

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OGLE-2005-BLG-169L

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OGLE-2005-BLG-169Lb

OGLE-2005-BLG-169Lb is an extrasolar planet located approximately 2700 parsecs away in the constellation of Sagittarius, orbiting the star OGLE-2005-BLG-169L.

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OGLE-2005-BLG-390L

OGLE-2005-BLG-390L is a star thought to be a spectral type M (a red dwarf; 95% probability, 4% probability it is a white dwarf,.

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OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb

OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb (known sometimes as Hoth by NASA) is a super-Earth exoplanet orbiting OGLE-2005-BLG-390L, a star 21,500 ± 3,300 light years from Earth near the center of the Milky Way.

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OGLE-2007-BLG-368Lb

OGLE-2007-BLG-368Lb is an extrasolar planet located approximately 19,230 light-years away in the constellation of Scorpius, orbiting the star OGLE-2007-BLG-368L.

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On First Looking into Chapman's Homer

On First Looking into Chapman's Homer is a sonnet written by the English Romantic poet John Keats (1795–1821) in October 1816.

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Ophelia (moon)

Ophelia is a moon of Uranus.

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Orbit

In physics, an orbit is the gravitationally curved trajectory of an object, such as the trajectory of a planet around a star or a natural satellite around a planet.

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Orbital eccentricity

The orbital eccentricity of an astronomical object is a parameter that determines the amount by which its orbit around another body deviates from a perfect circle.

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Orbital period

The orbital period is the time a given astronomical object takes to complete one orbit around another object, and applies in astronomy usually to planets or asteroids orbiting the Sun, moons orbiting planets, exoplanets orbiting other stars, or binary stars.

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Orbital resonance

In celestial mechanics, an orbital resonance occurs when orbiting bodies exert a regular, periodic gravitational influence on each other, usually because their orbital periods are related by a ratio of small integers.

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Orders of magnitude (area)

This page is a progressive and labelled list of the SI area orders of magnitude, with certain examples appended to some list objects.

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Orders of magnitude (density)

No description.

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Orders of magnitude (length)

The following are examples of orders of magnitude for different lengths.

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Orders of magnitude (mass)

To help compare different orders of magnitude, the following lists describe various mass levels between 10−40 kg and 1053 kg.

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Orders of magnitude (temperature)

Most ordinary human activity takes place at temperatures of this order of magnitude.

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Orders of magnitude (volume)

The table lists various objects and units by the order of magnitude of their volume.

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Oron

Oron may refer to.

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Orrery

An orrery is a mechanical model of the solar system that illustrates or predicts the relative positions and motions of the planets and moons, usually according to the heliocentric model.

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Otto Wilhelm von Struve

Otto Wilhelm von Struve (May 7, 1819 (Julian calendar: April 25) – April 14, 1905) was a Russian astronomer.

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Outer planets

The outer planets are those planets in the Solar System beyond the asteroid belt, and hence refers to the gas giants and ice giants, which are in order of their distance from the Sun.

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Outline of astronomy

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to astronomy: Astronomy – studies the universe beyond Earth, including its formation and development, and the evolution, physics, chemistry, meteorology, and motion of celestial objects (such as galaxies, planets, etc.) and phenomena that originate outside the atmosphere of Earth (such as the cosmic background radiation).

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Outline of Jupiter

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Jupiter: Jupiter – fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System.

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Outline of Neptune

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Neptune: Neptune – eighth and farthest known planet from the Sun in the Solar System.

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Outline of the Solar System

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the Solar System: Solar System – gravitationally bound system comprising the Sun and the objects that orbit it, either directly or indirectly.

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Outline of Uranus

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Uranus: Uranus – seventh planet from the Sun.

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Pan-STARRS

The Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS 1; obs. code: F51 and Pan-STARRS 2 obs. code: F52) located at Haleakala Observatory, Hawaii, USA, consists of astronomical cameras, telescopes and a computing facility that is surveying the sky for moving or variable objects on a continual basis, and also producing accurate astrometry and photometry of already detected objects.

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Pebble accretion

In pebble accretion the accretion of objects ranging from cm's up to meters in diameter onto planetesimals in a protoplanetary disk is enhanced by aerodynamic drag.

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Percival Lowell

Percival Lawrence Lowell (March 13, 1855 – November 12, 1916) was an American businessman, author, mathematician, and astronomer who fueled speculation that there were canals on Mars.

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Perdita (moon)

Perdita is an inner satellite of Uranus.

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Perturbation (astronomy)

In astronomy, perturbation is the complex motion of a massive body subject to forces other than the gravitational attraction of a single other massive body.

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Perturbation theory

Perturbation theory comprises mathematical methods for finding an approximate solution to a problem, by starting from the exact solution of a related, simpler problem.

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Peter Goldreich

Peter Goldreich (born July 14, 1939) is an American astrophysicist whose research focuses on celestial mechanics, planetary rings, helioseismology and neutron stars.

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Phase curve (astronomy)

In astronomy a phase curve describes the brightness of a reflecting body as a function of its phase angle.

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Phil Nicholson

Philip D. Nicholson (born 1951) is an Australian-born professor of astronomy at Cornell University in the Astronomy department specialising in Planetary Sciences.

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Philosophy of science

Philosophy of science is a sub-field of philosophy concerned with the foundations, methods, and implications of science.

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Pierre Charles Le Monnier

Pierre Charles Le Monnier (20 November 1715 – 3 April 1799) was a French astronomer.

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Pioneer plaque

The Pioneer plaques are a pair of gold-anodized aluminium plaques which were placed on board the 1972 Pioneer 10 and 1973 Pioneer 11 spacecraft, featuring a pictorial message, in case either Pioneer 10 or 11 is intercepted by extraterrestrial life.

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Placidus Fixlmillner

Dom Placidus Fixlmillner, O.S.B., (May 28, 1721 – August 27, 1791) was a Benedictine monk and priest and was one of the first astronomers to compute the orbit of Uranus.

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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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Planet Earth (1986 TV series)

Planet Earth is a seven-episode 1986 PBS television documentary series focusing on the Earth, narrated by Richard Kiley.

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Planet Nine

Planet Nine is a hypothetical planet in the outer region of the Solar System.

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Planet symbols

A planet symbol (or planetary symbol) is a graphical symbol either in astrology or astronomy representing either a classical planet (including the Sun and the Moon) or one of the eight modern planets.

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Planetarium

A planetarium (plural planetaria or planetariums) is a theatre built primarily for presenting educational and entertaining shows about astronomy and the night sky, or for training in celestial navigation.

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Planetarium (album)

Planetarium is a collaborative album inspired by the Solar System, featuring Bryce Dessner of the indie rock band The National, drummer James McAlister, contemporary classical music composer and arranger Nico Muhly, and singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens.

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Planetary flyby

A planetary flyby is the act of sending a space probe past a planet or a dwarf planet close enough to record scientific data.

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Planetary habitability

Planetary habitability is the measure of a planet's or a natural satellite's potential to have habitable environments hospitable to life, or its ability to generate life endogenously.

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Planetary mass

Planetary mass is a measure of the mass of a planet-like object.

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Planetary mnemonic

A planetary mnemonic refers to a phrase used to remember the planets and dwarf planets of the Solar System, with the order of words corresponding to increasing sidereal periods of the bodies.

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Planetary nebula

A planetary nebula, abbreviated as PN or plural PNe, is a type of emission nebula consisting of an expanding, glowing shell of ionized gas ejected from red giant stars late in their lives.

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Planetary nomenclature

Planetary nomenclature, like terrestrial nomenclature, is a system of uniquely identifying features on the surface of a planet or natural satellite so that the features can be easily located, described, and discussed.

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Planetary objects proposed in religion, astrology, ufology and pseudoscience

There are a number of planets or moons whose existence is not supported by scientific evidence, but are proposed by various astrologers, pseudoscientists, conspiracy theorists, or certain religious groups.

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Planetary Science Decadal Survey

The Planetary Science Decadal Survey is a publication of the United States National Research Council produced for NASA and other United States Government Agencies such as the National Science Foundation.

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Planetary series

The Planetary series of stories by Stanley G. Weinbaum is series of short stories, published in Wonder Stories and Astounding Stories in the 1930s, which are set upon various planets and moons of the Solar System.

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Planets beyond Neptune

Following the discovery of the planet Neptune in 1846, there was considerable speculation that another planet might exist beyond its orbit.

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Planets in astrology

Planets in astrology have a meaning different from the modern astronomical understanding of what a planet is.

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Ploërmel astronomical clock

The Ploërmel Astronomical Clock is a 19th-century astronomical clock in Ploërmel in Brittany, in north-west France.

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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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Plutoid

A plutoid or ice dwarf is a trans-Neptunian dwarf planet, i.e. a body orbiting beyond Neptune that is massive enough to be rounded in shape.

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Plutonium

Plutonium is a radioactive chemical element with symbol Pu and atomic number 94.

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Polaris

Polaris, designated Alpha Ursae Minoris (Ursae Minoris, abbreviated Alpha UMi, UMi), commonly the North Star or Pole Star, is the brightest star in the constellation of Ursa Minor.

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Pole star

Pole star or polar star refers to a star, preferably bright, closely aligned to the axis of rotation of an astronomical object.

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Poles of astronomical bodies

The poles of astronomical bodies are determined based on their axis of rotation in relation to the celestial poles of the celestial sphere.

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Portia (moon)

Portia is an inner satellite of Uranus.

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Portia (The Merchant of Venice)

Portia is the heroine of William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.

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Position of the Sun

The position of the Sun in the sky is a function of both the time and the geographic location of observation on Earth's surface.

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Precovery

In astronomy, precovery (short for pre-discovery recovery) is the process of finding the image of an object in old archived images or photographic plates for the purpose of calculating a more accurate orbit.

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Procyon

Procyon, also designated Alpha Canis Minoris (α Canis Minoris, abbreviated Alpha CMi, α CMi), is the brightest star in the constellation of Canis Minor.

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Prospero (moon)

Prospero is a relatively small retrograde irregular satellite of Uranus discovered on 18 July 1999 by the astrophysicist Matthew Holman and his team, and given the provisional designation S/1999 U 3.

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Protoplanetary nebula

A protoplanetary nebula or preplanetary nebula (PPN) is an astronomical object which is at the short-lived episode during a star's rapid evolution between the late asymptotic giant branch (LAGB) phase and the subsequent planetary nebula (PN) phase.

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PSR B1620-26 b

PSR B1620-26 b is an extrasolar planet located approximately 12,400 light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Scorpius.

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Puck (moon)

Puck is an inner moon of Uranus.

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Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey

Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey (originally titled as 2004: A Light Knight's Odyssey) is a 2010 animated educational sci-fi adventure film, written by Harry 'Doc' Kloor and directed by Kloor and Dan St. Pierre, as a science fiction film that takes the viewer on an atomic adventure in space.

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Quasar (comics)

Quasar is the name of several fictional superheroes in the Marvel Comics universe.

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Quasi-satellite

A quasi-satellite is an object in a specific type of co-orbital configuration (1:1 orbital resonance) with a planet where the object stays close to that planet over many orbital periods.

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Queen Desira

Queen Desira is the name of two fictional characters of royal background.

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Rain

Rain is liquid water in the form of droplets that have condensed from atmospheric water vapor and then becomes heavy enough to fall under gravity.

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Randii Wessen

Randii Ray Wessen (born May 13, 1958) is an American astronautics systems engineer specifically involved in planetary exploration, experimental economist, and writer.

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Ravit Helled

Ravit Helled Ita (born in 1980) is an Israeli planetary scientist, associate professor in the department of Earth Sciences at Tel Aviv University and a professor in the department of astrophysics and cosmology at the University of Zürich.

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References to Ophelia

Ophelia is often referred to in literature and the arts, often in connection to suicide, love, and/or mental instability.

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Regular polyhedron

A regular polyhedron is a polyhedron whose symmetry group acts transitively on its flags.

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Reta Beebe

Reta F. Beebe (born October 10, 1936 in Baca County Colorado) is an American astronomer, author, and popularizer of astronomy.

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Retrograde and prograde motion

Retrograde motion in astronomy is, in general, orbital or rotational motion of an object in the direction opposite the rotation of its primary, that is the central object (right figure).

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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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Richard J. Terrile

Richard John Terrile (born March 22, 1951 in New York) is a Voyager scientist who discovered several moons of Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.

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Richard Tarnas

Richard Theodore Tarnas (born February 21, 1950) is a cultural historian known for his books The Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas That Have Shaped Our World View and Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View.

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Ricky Ricotta's Mighty Robot (series)

Ricky Ricotta's Mighty Robot is a series of children's graphic novels written by Dav Pilkey (best known for his Captain Underpants books) and first seven books illustrated by Martin Ontiveros and all nine books, including two long-awaited sequels, illustrated by Dan Santat.

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Ring system

A ring system is a disc or ring orbiting an astronomical object that is composed of solid material such as dust and moonlets, and is a common component of satellite systems around giant planets.

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Rings of Chariklo

The minor planet and centaur 10199 Chariklo, with a diameter of about, is the second smallest object with rings and the sixth ringed object ever discovered in the Solar System.

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Rings of Uranus

The rings of Uranus are a system of rings around the planet Uranus, intermediate in complexity between the more extensive set around Saturn and the simpler systems around Jupiter and Neptune.

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Robotic spacecraft

A robotic spacecraft is an uncrewed spacecraft, usually under telerobotic control.

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Roche limit

In celestial mechanics, the Roche limit, also called Roche radius, is the distance in which a celestial body, held together only by its own gravity, will disintegrate due to a second celestial body's tidal forces exceeding the first body's gravitational self-attraction.

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Rocket to Uranus

Rocket To Uranus is the 2010 comeback song for the Dutch eurodance group Vengaboys.

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Rosalind (moon)

Rosalind is an inner satellite of Uranus.

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Rotation

A rotation is a circular movement of an object around a center (or point) of rotation.

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Rotation period

In astronomy, the rotation period of a celestial object is the time that it takes to complete one revolution around its axis of rotation relative to the background stars.

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S/2004 N 1

S/2004 N 1 is a small moon of Neptune, about in diameter, which orbits the planet in just under one Earth day.

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Sailor Uranus

is a fictional lead character in the Sailor Moon media franchise.

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Sanat Kumara

According to the post-1900 publications of Theosophy, Lord Sanat Kumara is an "Advanced Being" at the Ninth level of initiation who is regarded as the 'Lord' or 'Regent' of Earth and of the humanity, and is thought to be the head of the Spiritual Hierarchy of Earth who dwells in Shamballah (also known as 'The City of Enoch').

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Satellite system (astronomy)

A satellite system is a set of gravitationally bound objects in orbit around a planetary mass object or minor planet.

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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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Scale height

In various scientific contexts, a scale height is a distance over which a quantity decreases by a factor of e (approximately 2.72, the base of natural logarithms).

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Scattered disc

The scattered disc (or scattered disk) is a distant circumstellar disc in the Solar System that is sparsely populated by icy small solar system bodies, and are a subset of the broader family of trans-Neptunian objects.

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Science in the Age of Enlightenment

The history of science during the Age of Enlightenment traces developments in science and technology during the Age of Reason, when Enlightenment ideas and ideals were being disseminated across Europe and North America.

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Scientific theory

A scientific theory is an explanation of an aspect of the natural world that can be repeatedly tested, in accordance with the scientific method, using a predefined protocol of observation and experiment.

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Scorpio (astrology)

Scorpio is the eighth astrological sign in the Zodiac, originating from the constellation of Scorpius.

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Scott S. Sheppard

Scott Sander Sheppard (b. 1976) is an American astronomer and a discoverer of numerous moons, comets and minor planets in the outer Solar System.

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Scott Tremaine

Scott Duncan Tremaine (born 1950) is a Canadian-born astrophysicist.

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Seasonal lag

Seasonal lag is the phenomenon whereby the date of maximum average air temperature at a geographical location on a planet is delayed until some time after the date of maximum insolation.

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September 2015 lunar eclipse

A total lunar eclipse took place between September 27 and 28, 2015.

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Setebos (moon)

Setebos is one of the outermost retrograde irregular satellites of Uranus.

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Seven rays

The seven rays is an occult concept that has appeared in several religions and esoteric philosophies in both Western culture and in India since at least the sixth century BCE.

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Seven Society

The Seven Society (founded 1905) is the most secretive of the University of Virginia's secret societies.

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Seventh planet (disambiguation)

Seventh planet may refer to.

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Shepherd moon

A shepherd moon (also herder moon, watcher moon) is a small natural satellite that clears a gap in planetary-ring material or keeps particles within a ring contained.

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Short Trips: The Solar System

Short Trips: The Solar System is a Big Finish original anthology edited by Gary Russell and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

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Sidereal time

Sidereal time is a timekeeping system that astronomers use to locate celestial objects.

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Sigma Draconis

Sigma Draconis (σ Draconis, abbreviated Sig Dra, σ Dra), also named Alsafi, is a 4.7-magnitude star located at a distance of 18.8 light-years from the Sun in the constellation of Draco.

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Sirius

Sirius (a romanization of Greek Σείριος, Seirios,."glowing" or "scorching") is a star system and the brightest star in the Earth's night sky.

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Six Degrees of Everything

Six Degrees of Everything is a 30-minute American comedy reality show developed by Fine Brothers Entertainment & Marc Summers Productions for TruTV, and starring the Fine Brothers as the series hosts.

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Skynd (crater)

Skynd is a crater on the surface of Uranus' moon Umbriel.

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SkyWeek

SkyWeek was a weekly astronomy television program created by Sky & Telescope magazine.

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Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Star Catalog

The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Star Catalog is an astrometric star catalogue.

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Solar eclipses on Uranus

Solar eclipses on Uranus occur when any of the natural satellites of Uranus passes in front of the Sun as seen from Uranus.

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Solar System

The Solar SystemCapitalization of the name varies.

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Solar System model

Solar System models, especially mechanical models, called orreries, that illustrate the relative positions and motions of the planets and moons in the Solar System have been built for centuries.

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South West England

South West England is one of nine official regions of England.

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Space Cases

Space Cases is a Canadian science fiction television series that aired on Nickelodeon for two seasons.

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Space exploration

Space exploration is the discovery and exploration of celestial structures in outer space by means of evolving and growing space technology.

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Space Patrol (1962 TV series)

Space Patrol is a science-fiction television series featuring marionettes that was produced in the United Kingdom in 1962 and broadcast beginning in 1963.

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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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Space: 1889

Space: 1889 is a tabletop role-playing game of Victorian-era space-faring, created by Frank Chadwick and originally published by Game Designers' Workshop from 1988 to 1991 and later reprinted by Heliograph, Inc. in 2000 and 2001.

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Spacecraft

A spacecraft is a vehicle or machine designed to fly in outer space.

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Spaceflight

Spaceflight (also written space flight) is ballistic flight into or through outer space.

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Sphere of influence (astrodynamics)

A sphere of influence (SOI) in astrodynamics and astronomy is the oblate-spheroid-shaped region around a celestial body where the primary gravitational influence on an orbiting object is that body.

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Spheroid

A spheroid, or ellipsoid of revolution, is a quadric surface obtained by rotating an ellipse about one of its principal axes; in other words, an ellipsoid with two equal semi-diameters.

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Standard gravitational parameter

In celestial mechanics, the standard gravitational parameter μ of a celestial body is the product of the gravitational constant G and the mass M of the body.

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Stanley G. Weinbaum

Stanley Grauman Weinbaum (April 4, 1902 – December 14, 1935) was an American science fiction writer.

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Star

A star is type of astronomical object consisting of a luminous spheroid of plasma held together by its own gravity.

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Star Trek planet classification

The planet classification used in the Star Trek science fiction media franchise uses letters to refer to classes of planets and planetoids.

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Stargazing Live

Stargazing Live was a British live television programme on astronomy that was broadcast yearly since its first broadcast on BBC Two in January 2011.

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Starman (comics)

Starman is a name used by several different DC Comics superheroes, most prominently Ted Knight and his sons David and Jack.

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Stephano (moon)

Stephano is a retrograde irregular satellite of Uranus.

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Stonekeep

Stonekeep is a role-playing video game developed and released by Interplay Productions for the PC in 1995.

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Strongly interacting massive particle

Strongly interacting massive particles (SIMPs) are hypothetical particles that interact strongly between themselves and weakly with ordinary matter, but could form the inferred dark matter despite this.

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Sudarsky's gas giant classification

Sudarsky's classification of gas giants for the purpose of predicting their appearance based on their temperature was outlined by David Sudarsky and colleagues in the paper Albedo and Reflection Spectra of Extrasolar Giant Planets and expanded on in Theoretical Spectra and Atmospheres of Extrasolar Giant Planets, published before any successful direct or indirect observation of an extrasolar planet atmosphere was made.

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Sun

The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System.

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Sun dog

A sun dog (or sundog) or mock sun, formally called a parhelion (plural parhelia) in meteorology, is an atmospheric optical phenomenon that consists of a bright spot to the left or right of the Sun.

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Sunlight

Sunlight is a portion of the electromagnetic radiation given off by the Sun, in particular infrared, visible, and ultraviolet light.

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Super-Earth

A super-Earth is an extrasolar planet with a mass higher than Earth's, but substantially below the masses of the Solar System's ice giants, Uranus and Neptune, which have masses of 15 and 17 times Earth's, respectively.

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Supercritical fluid

A supercritical fluid (SCF) is any substance at a temperature and pressure above its critical point, where distinct liquid and gas phases do not exist.

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Superionic water

Superionic water is a phase of water under extreme heat and pressure which has properties of both a solid and a liquid, which is supported by some experimental evidence.

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Surface gravity

The surface gravity, g, of an astronomical or other object is the gravitational acceleration experienced at its surface.

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Svarbhānu

Svarbhānu or Swarbhanu (Sanskrit: स्वरभानु, lit. Splendour of Radiance) is a Hindu Asura (demon) traditionally held responsible for solar eclipses in Vedic mythology.

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Sweden Solar System

The Sweden Solar System is the world's largest permanent scale model of the Solar System.

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Sycorax (moon)

Sycorax is the largest retrograde irregular satellite of Uranus.

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Table of stars with Flamsteed designations

This table lists those stars/objects which have Flamsteed designations by the constellation in which those stars/objects lie.

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Telescopium Herschelii

Telescopium Herschelii (Latin for Herschel's telescope), also formerly known as Tubus Hershelli Major, is a former constellation in the northern celestial hemisphere.

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Terracon

Terracon is an action-adventure video game released on August 25, 2000, for the Sony PlayStation in Europe only; although, a North American release by Midway was planned, but was cancelled for unknown reasons.

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The 50 Most Extreme Places in Our Solar System

The 50 Most Extreme Places in Our Solar System is the title of a science book by David Baker, professor of physics at Austin College and Todd Ratcliff, a planetary geophysicist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby

The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby is an American children's novel by Dav Pilkey, credited as "George Beard and Harold Hutchins", categorized as part of the author's Captain Underpants series of books as a spin-off to the series.

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The Creation (Haydn)

The Creation (Die Schöpfung) is an oratorio written between 1797 and 1798 by Joseph Haydn (Hob. XXI:2), and considered by many to be his masterpiece.

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The Deep South (Futurama)

"The Deep South" is the twelfth episode in the second season of the American animated television series Futurama.

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The Expanse (novel series)

The Expanse is a series of science fiction novels series (and related novellas and short stories) by James S. A. Corey, the joint pen name of authors Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck.

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The God Beneath the Sea

The God Beneath the Sea is a children's novel based on Greek mythology, written by Leon Garfield and Edward Blishen, illustrated by Charles Keeping, and published by Longman in 1970.

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The Jupiter Effect

The Jupiter Effect is a 1974 book by John Gribbin and Stephen Plagemann, in which the authors predicted that an alignment of the planets of the Solar System would create a number of catastrophes, including a great earthquake on the San Andreas Fault, on March 10, 1982.

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The Magic School Bus Lost in the Solar System

The Magic School Bus Lost in the Solar System is the fourth book in Joanna Cole and Bruce Degan's The Magic School Bus series.

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The Penguin Declines

"The Penguin Declines" is the 73rd episode of Batman, the conclusion of a three-part story in its second season on ABC.

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The Planet of Doubt

"The Planet of Doubt" is a science fiction short story by Stanley G. Weinbaum that was first published in the October 1935 issue of Astounding Stories.

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The Planets

The Planets, Op.

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The Planets (miniseries)

The Planets is an educational miniseries produced by the BBC and A&E and released in 1999.

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The Science Fictional Solar System

The Science Fictional Solar System is a 1979 anthology of science fiction short-stories revolving around the solar system.

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The Space Trilogy

The Space Trilogy or Cosmic Trilogy is a series of science fiction novels by C. S. Lewis, famous for his later series The Chronicles of Narnia.

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The Time Traveller (fanzine)

The Time Traveller was one of the earliest science fiction fanzines, started in 1932.

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The Tunnel Thru the Air; Or, Looking Back from 1940

The Tunnel Thru the Air, Or, Looking Back from 1940 is a science fiction novel written by market forecaster William Delbert Gann in 1927.

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The Universe (TV series)

The Universe is an American documentary television series that features computer-generated imagery and computer graphics of astronomical objects in the universe plus interviews with experts who study in the fields of cosmology, astronomy, and astrophysics.

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The Zula Patrol

The Zula Patrol is an animated television series distributed by American Public Television to PBS stations in the United States.

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Thomas John Hussey

Thomas John Hussey (4 April 1792 – c. 1866) was an English clergyman and astronomer.

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Thomas Keightley

Thomas Keightley (17 October 1789 – 4 November 1872) was an Irish writer known for his works on mythology and folklore, particularly Fairy Mythology (1828), reprinted as The World Guide to Gnomes, Fairies, Elves, and Other Little People (1880, 1978, 2000, etc.). Regarded as a pioneer in the study of Folklore by modern scholars in the field,; Repr.

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Tidal acceleration

Tidal acceleration is an effect of the tidal forces between an orbiting natural satellite (e.g. the Moon), and the primary planet that it orbits (e.g. Earth).

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Tidal locking

Tidal locking (also called gravitational locking or captured rotation) occurs when the long-term interaction between a pair of co-orbiting astronomical bodies drives the rotation rate of at least one of them into the state where there is no more net transfer of angular momentum between this body (e.g. a planet) and its orbit around the second body (e.g. a star); this condition of "no net transfer" must be satisfied over the course of one orbit around the second body.

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Timeline of Bath, Somerset

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Bath, Somerset, England.

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Timeline of Cassini–Huygens

This article provides a Timeline of the Cassini–Huygens (commonly called Cassini) mission.

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Timeline of chemical element discoveries

The discovery of the 118 chemical elements known to exist today is presented here in chronological order.

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Timeline of discovery of Solar System planets and their moons

The timeline of discovery of Solar System planets and their natural satellites charts the progress of the discovery of new bodies over history.

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Timeline of gravitational physics and relativity

Timeline of gravitational physics and general relativity.

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Timeline of planetariums

This is a timeline of planetariums.

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Timeline of scientific discoveries

The timeline below shows the date of publication of possible major scientific theories and discoveries, along with the discoverer.

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Timeline of Solar System astronomy

Timeline of Solar System astronomy.

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Timeline of Solar System exploration

This is a timeline of Solar System exploration ordered by date of spacecraft launch.

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Timeline of space exploration

This is for a timeline of space exploration including notable achievements and first accomplishments or major events in humanity's exploration of outer space.

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Timeline of telescopes, observatories, and observing technology

Timeline of telescopes, observatories, and observing technology.

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Timeline of the 20th century

This is a timeline of the 20th century.

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Timeline of the far future

While predictions of the future can never be absolutely certain, present understanding in various scientific fields allows for the prediction of far-future events, if only in the broadest outline.

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Timeline of the formation of the Universe

This is a timeline of the formation and subsequent evolution of the Universe from the Big Bang (13.799 ± 0.021 billion years ago) to the present day.

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Timeline of United States discoveries

Timeline of United States discoveries encompasses the breakthroughs of human thought and knowledge of new scientific findings, phenomena, places, things, and what was previously unknown to exist.

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Titan IIIE

The Titan IIIE or Titan 3E, also known as the Titan III-Centaur, was an American expendable launch system. Launched seven times between 1974 and 1977, it enabled several high-profile NASA missions, including the Voyager and Viking planetary probes and the joint West Germany-U.S. Helios spacecraft. All seven launches were conducted from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 41 in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

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Titania (moon)

No description.

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Titania Peak

Titania Peak is a rock peak, rising to about 1,250 m, lying near the head of Uranus Glacier, 11 nautical miles (20 km) west-northwest of Mount Umbriel, situated in the central portion of Alexander Island, Antarctica.

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Titius–Bode law

The Titius–Bode law (sometimes termed just Bode's law) is a hypothesis that the bodies in some orbital systems, including the Sun's, orbit at semi-major axes in a function of planetary sequence.

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To the Earth

To the Earth is a light gun shooter for the Nintendo Entertainment System.

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Transit of Venus March

The "Transit of Venus March" is a march scored for military brass band written by John Philip Sousa in 1883 to celebrate the 1882 Transit of Venus and published by the J.W. Pepper Company.

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Transuranium element

The transuranium elements (also known as transuranic elements) are the chemical elements with atomic numbers greater than 92 (the atomic number of uranium).

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Trihydrogen cation

The trihydrogen cation, also known as protonated molecular hydrogen or, is one of the most abundant ions in the universe.

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Trinculo (moon)

Trinculo is a retrograde irregular satellite of Uranus.

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Triple conjunction

A triple conjunction is an astronomical event, where two planets or a planet and a star meet each other three times in a short period either in opposition or at the time of inferior conjunction, if an inferior planet is involved.

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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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Trojan (astronomy)

In astronomy, a trojan is a minor planet or moon that shares the orbit of a planet or larger moon, wherein the trojan remains in the same, stable position relative to the larger object.

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True polar wander

True polar wander is a solid-body rotation of a planet or moon with respect to its spin axis, causing the geographic locations of the north and south poles to change, or "wander".

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Tug of war (astronomy)

The tug of war in astronomy is the ratio of planetary and solar attractions on a natural satellite.

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TW Hydrae b

TW Hydrae b is a likely extrasolar planet orbiting the young T Tauri star TW Hydrae approximately 176 light-years (54 parsecs, or nearly km) away in the constellation of Hydra.

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Typhon

Typhon (Τυφῶν, Tuphōn), also Typhoeus (Τυφωεύς, Tuphōeus), Typhaon (Τυφάων, Tuphaōn) or Typhos (Τυφώς, Tuphōs), was a monstrous serpentine giant and the most deadly creature in Greek mythology.

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Umbriel (moon)

Umbriel is a moon of Uranus discovered on October 24, 1851, by William Lassell.

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Universal War One

Universal War One is a six-part French comic book limited series written, penciled, and inked by Denis Bajram.

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University of Toronto

The University of Toronto (U of T, UToronto, or Toronto) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on the grounds that surround Queen's Park.

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Unmanned spacecraft

Unmanned spacecraft are spacecraft without people ("man") on board, used for unmanned spaceflight.

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Upton, Slough

Upton is a suburb of Slough in Berkshire, England.

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Uranian (comics)

The Uranians are a fictional race appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

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Uranian (disambiguation)

Uranian may refer to.

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Uranium

Uranium is a chemical element with symbol U and atomic number 92.

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Urano

*Urano means Uranus in Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Galician, and Esperanto.

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Uranus

Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun.

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Uranus (disambiguation)

Uranus is a planet in the Solar System, named after Uranus (mythology), an Ancient Greek sky god.

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Uranus (mythology)

Uranus (Ancient Greek Οὐρανός, Ouranos meaning "sky" or "heaven") was the primal Greek god personifying the sky and one of the Greek primordial deities.

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Uranus Glacier

Uranus Glacier is a glacier on the east coast of Alexander Island, Antarctica, long and wide at its mouth, flowing east into George VI Sound immediately south of Fossil Bluff.

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Uranus in fiction

The planet Uranus has appeared in various forms of fiction.

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Uranus Pathfinder

Uranus Pathfinder was a mission concept for the Uranian system evaluated in the 2010s by the ESA.

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Uranus trojan

There are two known Uranus trojans, or minor planets orbiting in the Lagrangian points of Uranus.

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Urbain Le Verrier

Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier (11 March 1811 – 23 September 1877) was a French mathematician who specialized in celestial mechanics and is best known for predicting the existence and position of Neptune using only mathematics.

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Ursula (crater)

Ursula is a large crater on Uranus's moon Titania.

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USS Oberon (AKA-14)

USS Oberon (AK-56/AKA-14/T-AKA-14/LKA-14) was a in the United States Navy.

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USS Titania (AKA-13)

USS Titania (AK-55/AKA-13) was an named after Titania, one of the moons of the planet Uranus.

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Vainu Bappu

Manali Kallat Vainu Bappu (August 10, 1927 – August 19, 1982) was an Indian astronomer and president of the International Astronomical Union.

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Vainu Bappu Observatory

The Vainu Bappu Observatory is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by the Indian Institute of Astrophysics.

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Van Allen radiation belt

A Van Allen radiation belt is a zone of energetic charged particles, most of which originate from the solar wind, that are captured by and held around a planet by that planet's magnetic field.

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Verona Rupes

Verona Rupes is a cliff on Miranda, a moon of Uranus.

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Virgilio Trettenero

Virgilio Trettenero (4 February 1822 – 23 May 1863) was an Italian mathematician and astronomer born in Recoaro Terme, Province of Vicenza, Italy.

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Virginia Air and Space Center

The Virginia Air and Space Center is a museum and educational facility in Hampton, Virginia that also serves as the visitors center for NASA's Langley Research Center and Langley Air Force Base.

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Vladimir Pletser

Vladimir Pletser (born 28 February 1956) is Visiting Professor – Scientific Adviser at the Technology and Engineering Centre for Space Utilization (CSU) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, China, since April 2016.

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Volatiles

In planetary science, volatiles are the group of chemical elements and chemical compounds with low boiling points that are associated with a planet's or moon's crust or atmosphere.

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Voyager 2

Voyager 2 is a space probe launched by NASA on August 20, 1977, to study the outer planets.

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Voyager program

The Voyager program is an American scientific program that employs two robotic probes, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, to study the outer Solar System.

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Voyager Terra

Voyager Terra is a region on the dwarf planet Pluto, north of Viking Terra and Tombaugh Regio and west of Pioneer Terra, which was discovered in July 2015 by the New Horizons spacecraft.

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VSOP (planets)

The semi-analytic planetary theory VSOP (French: Variations Séculaires des Orbites Planétaires) is a concept describing long-term changes (secular variation) in the orbits of the planets Mercury to Neptune.

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Vuver (crater)

Vuver is a crater on the surface of Uranus' moon Umbriel.

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Wanderers (2014 film)

Wanderers is a 2014 Swedish science fiction short film created by the digital artist and animator Erik Wernquist.

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Warren B. Offutt

Warren B. Offutt (born 1928) is an American amateur astronomer and amateur radio operator.

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Water

Water is a transparent, tasteless, odorless, and nearly colorless chemical substance that is the main constituent of Earth's streams, lakes, and oceans, and the fluids of most living organisms.

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Wednesday

Wednesday is the day of the week between Tuesday and Thursday.

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Weight

In science and engineering, the weight of an object is related to the amount of force acting on the object, either due to gravity or to a reaction force that holds it in place.

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Western culture

Western culture, sometimes equated with Western civilization, Occidental culture, the Western world, Western society, European civilization,is a term used very broadly to refer to a heritage of social norms, ethical values, traditional customs, belief systems, political systems and specific artifacts and technologies that have some origin or association with Europe.

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What If the Moon Didn't Exist

What if the Moon Didn’t Exist is a collection of speculative articles about different versions of Earth, published in book form in 1993.

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William Delbert Gann

William Delbert Gann (June 6, 1878 – June 18, 1955) or WD Gann, was a finance trader who developed the technical analysis methods like the Gann angles and the Master Charts, where the latter is a collective name for his various tools like the Square of Nine, the Hexagon Chart, and the Circle of 360.

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William Henry Pickering

William Henry Pickering (February 15, 1858 – January 16, 1938) was an American astronomer.

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William Herschel

Frederick William Herschel, (Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel; 15 November 1738 – 25 August 1822) was a German-born British astronomer, composer and brother of fellow astronomer Caroline Herschel, with whom he worked.

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William Herschel Telescope

The William Herschel Telescope (WHT) is a optical/near-infrared reflecting telescope located at the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos on the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands, Spain.

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William I. McLaughlin

William I. McLaughlin (born 1935), is a retired American space scientist.

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William Lassell

William Lassell, (18 June 1799 – 5 October 1880) was an English merchant and astronomer.

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Wind

Wind is the flow of gases on a large scale.

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Wolf 1061d

Wolf 1061d or WL 1061d is an exoplanet orbiting the red dwarf star Wolf 1061 in the Ophiuchus constellation, about 13.8 light years from Earth.

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Wunda

Wunda is a dark spirit in Indigenous Australian aboriginal mythology.

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Wunda (crater)

Wunda is a large crater on the surface of Uranus' moon Umbriel.

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XEphem

XEphem is a Motif based ephemeris and planetarium program for Unix-like operating systems developed by Elwood C. Downey.

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You Don't Know Jack (franchise)

You Don't Know Jack (commonly abbreviated YDKJ) released in Japan as, is a series of computer games developed by Jackbox Games (formerly known as Jellyvision Games) and Berkeley Systems, as well as the title of the first You Don't Know Jack game in the series.

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(120216) 2004 EW95

, provisionally known as, is a resonant trans-Neptunian object in the Kuiper belt located in the outermost regions of the Solar System.

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(148975) 2001 XA255

, provisional designation, is a dark minor planet in the outer Solar System, classified as centaur, approximately 20 kilometers in diameter.

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(15875) 1996 TP66

, also written as (15875) 1996 TP66, is a resonant trans-Neptunian object in 2:3 resonance with Neptune, like Pluto (plutino).

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(248835) 2006 SX368

, provisional designation, is a centaur orbiting in the outer Solar System between Saturn and Neptune, approximately 75 kilometers in diameter.

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(308933) 2006 SQ372

is a trans-Neptunian object and highly eccentric centaur on a cometary-like orbit in the outer region of the Solar System, approximately in diameter.

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(44594) 1999 OX3

is an eccentric trans-Neptunian object with a centaur-like orbit from the outer Solar System, approximately 150 kilometers in diameter.

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(472651) 2015 DB216

is a centaur and Uranus co-orbital discovered on February 27, 2015, by the Mount Lemmon Survey.

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(87269) 2000 OO67

(also written (87269) 2000 OO67) is a small trans-Neptunian object (TNO) discovered by the Deep Ecliptic Survey in 2000.

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10199 Chariklo

10199 Chariklo (or; Χαρικλώ; provisional designation) is the largest confirmed centaur (minor planet of the outer Solar System).

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10370 Hylonome

10370 Hylonome (from), provisional designation, is a minor planet orbiting in the outer Solar System.

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15 Orionis

15 Orionis is a class F2IV (early F-type subgiant) star in the constellation Orion.

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1690

No description.

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1690 in England

Events from the year 1690 in England.

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1690 in science

The year 1690 in science and technology involved some significant events.

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171 Ophelia

171 Ophelia is a large, dark Themistian asteroid that was discovered by French astronomer Alphonse Borrelly on January 13, 1877, and named after the fictional character Ophelia in Shakespeare's play Hamlet.

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1781

No description.

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1781 in Great Britain

Events from the year 1781 in Great Britain.

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1781 in science

The year 1781 in science and technology involved some significant events.

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1787 in science

The year 1787 in science and technology involved some significant events.

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1821 in science

The year 1821 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

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1845 in science

The year 1845 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

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1846 in science

The year 1846 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

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1851

No description.

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1851 in science

The year 1851 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

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1851 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1851 in the United Kingdom.

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1899

No description.

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1899 in science

The year 1899 in science involved some significant events, listed below.

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1967 Menzel

1967 Menzel, provisional designation, is a stony asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 10 kilometers in diameter.

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1977 in spaceflight

Spaceflight in 1977 included some important events such as the roll out of the space shuttle orbiter, Voyager 1 and Voyager space probes were launched.

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1986

The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations.

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1986 in science

The year 1986 in science and technology involved many significant events, some not listed below.

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1986 in spaceflight

The year 1986 saw the destruction of Space Shuttle Challenger shortly after lift-off, killing all seven aboard, the first in-flight deaths of American astronauts.

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1986 in the United States

Events from the year 1986 in the United States.

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1999 LE31

is a damocloid centaur discovered on June 12, 1999.

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2000 Herschel

2000 Herschel, provisional designation, is a stony Phocaea asteroid and a tumbling slow rotator from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 17 kilometers in diameter.

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2000 in science

The year 2000 in science and technology involved some significant events.

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2001 QR322

is a minor planet and the first Neptune trojan discovered on 21 August 2001, by the Deep Ecliptic Survey at Cerro Tololo Observatory in Chile.

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2007 NC7

, also written as, is a trans-Neptunian object and centaur from the outer Solar System, approximately 106 kilometers in diameter.

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2008 KV42

(nicknamed Drac) is the first trans-Neptunian object (TNO) with a retrograde orbit to be discovered.

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2010 EU65

is a minor planet classified as centaur by the Minor Planet Center upon discovery.

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2011 in science

The year 2011 involved many significant scientific events, including the first artificial organ transplant, the launch of China's first space station and the growth of the world population to seven billion.

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2014 YX49

is a centaur and Uranus co-orbital first observed on December 26, 2014, by the Pan-STARRS survey.

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2017 in science

A number of significant scientific events occurred in 2017.

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2018 in science

A number of significant scientific events have occurred or are scheduled to occur in 2018.

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2060 Chiron

2060 Chiron, provisional designation, and also known as 95P/Chiron, is a minor planet in the outer Solar System, orbiting the Sun between Saturn and Uranus.

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20th century

The 20th century was a century that began on January 1, 1901 and ended on December 31, 2000.

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20th century in science

Science advanced dramatically during the 20th century.

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21 Lutetia

Lutetia is a large asteroid in the asteroid belt of an unusual spectral type.

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23rd century

The 23rd century will be the century of the Anno Domini or Common Era which, in the Gregorian calendar, will begin on January 1, 2201, and end on December 31, 2300.

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24th century

The 24th century of the Anno Domini (common era) will span from January 1, 2301 to December 31, 2400 of the Gregorian calendar.

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25th century

The 25th century of the anno Domini (common) era will span from January 1, 2401 to December 31, 2500 of the Gregorian calendar.

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29th century

The 29th century of the Anno Domini (common era) will span from January 1, 2801 – December 31, 2900 of the Gregorian calendar.

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30 Urania

30 Urania is a large main-belt asteroid that was discovered by English astronomer John Russell Hind on July 22, 1854.

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38P/Stephan–Oterma

38P/Stephan–Oterma (also known as Comet Stephan–Oterma) is a periodic comet with an orbital period of 38 years.

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3rd millennium

In contemporary history, the third millennium is a period of time that started on January 1, 2001, and will end on December 31, 3000 of the Gregorian calendar.

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4

4 (four) is a number, numeral, and glyph.

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4th millennium

The fourth millennium of the Gregorian calendar will begin on January 1, 3001, and end on December 31, 4000.

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5335 Damocles

5335 Damocles provisional designation, is a centaur and the namesake of the damocloids, a group of minor planets which are inactive nuclei of the Halley-type and long-period comets.

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54598 Bienor

54598 Bienor (from Bianor) is a centaur that grazes the orbit of Uranus.

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60 Echo

60 Echo is a quite large main-belt S-type asteroid.

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61 Virginis b

61 Virginis b (abbreviated 61 Vir b) is an extrasolar planet, orbiting the 5th magnitude G-type star 61 Virginis, in Virgo.

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61 Virginis c

61 Virginis c (abbreviated 61 Vir c) is an exoplanet orbiting the 5th apparent-magnitude G-type main-sequence star 61 Virginis in the constellation Virgo.

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61 Virginis d

61 Virginis d (abbreviated 61 Vir d) is a proposed exoplanet orbiting the 5th apparent-magnitude G-type main-sequence star 61 Virginis in the constellation Virgo.

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6395 Hilliard

6395 Hilliard, provisional designation, is a stony Nysian asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 4.5 kilometers in diameter.

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7066 Nessus

7066 Nessus (from Νέσσος) is a centaur (a type of icy minor planet) that was discovered by David L. Rabinowitz, working with Spacewatch, at Kitt Peak on 26 April 1993.

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83982 Crantor

83982 Crantor, provisional designation, is a centaur in a 1:1 resonance with Uranus, approximately 60 kilometers in diameter.

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84 (number)

84 (eighty-four) is the natural number following 83 and preceding 85.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranus

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