ATLAS, in Astronomy

in astronomy, one of the 18 named moons, or natural satellites, of Saturn. Also known as Saturn XV (or S15), Atlas is a small, irregularly shaped (nonspherical) body measuring about 25 mi (40 km) by 12.5 mi (20 km); it orbits Saturn at a mean distance of 85,544 mi (137,670 km), and has an orbital period of 0.6019 earth days—the rotational period is unknown but is assumed to be the same as the orbital period. Atlas was discovered by Richard J. Terrile in 1980 from photographs taken by Voyager 1 during its flyby of Saturn. Atlas is probably a shepherd satellite (a moon that limits the extent of a planetary ring through gravitational forces) of Saturn's A ring.

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books on: Atlas in Astronomy  - 254 results

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The Meaning of the Witch of Atlas
Book by Carl Grabo; The University of North Carolina press, 1935
Subjects: English poetry--Criticism and interpretiona, Shelley, Percy Bysshe--1792-1822--The witch of Atlas
...transmitted by the first men or imagined by their own genius; as by Abraham, from the efforts of reason, and the study of astronomy. Having enveloped them in allegories which themselves, only, could unfold, they left the people in total ignorance, favoured...
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Popular Astronomy: Being the New Descriptive Astronomy
Book by Joel Dorman Steele; American Book Company, 1899
Subjects: Astronomy
...Airy Lectures on Astronomy . Hind Solar System , and Introduction to Astronomy . Lockyer Elementary Lessons in Astronomy . Proctor Star Atlas . Sharpless and Phillips Astronomy . Schellen Spectrum Analysis . Winchell World-Life . Flammarion Wonders...
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A Dictionary of Astronomy
Book by Ian Ridpath; Oxford University Press, 1997
Subjects: Astronomy--Dictionaries
...have more in common with radio astronomy than infrared astronomy. Major submillimetre telescopes...contained a star catalogue and atlas based on Ptolemys * Almagest , revised in the spirit of Arab astronomy and with Arab star names that...
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Essays in Astronomy
Book by Sir Robert S. Ball, William Harkness, Sir John Herschel, William Huggins, Marquid de Laplace, Ormsby McKnight Mitchel, Richard Proctor, M. Schiaparelli, Edward Singleton Holden; D. Appleton & Company, 1900
Subjects: Astronomy
...determining parallax, 197 , 244 . Astronomical publications, 313 . Astronomy, American, 309 ; origin of, 255 ; sidereal, 255 . Astrophysics, 291 , 363 , 441 . Atlantis, Martian peninsula, 150 . "Atlas Coelestis," Flamsteeds, 258 . Aurigae, , see Capella...
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Larousse Encyclopedia of Astronomy
Book by Lucien Rudaux, G. Vaucouleurs De, F. L. Whipple; Prometheus Press, 1962
Subjects: Astronomy
...then have to refer to a star atlas to discover where this position...Very early in the history of astronomy it bacame necessary to give...became more and more urgent as astronomy advanced. The improvements...opening of the modern era of astronomy, the following should certainly...
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journal articles on: Atlas in Astronomy  - 45 results

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American Astronomy: Community, Careers, and Power, 1859-1940
Journal article by Thomas R. Williams; Journal of Social History, Vol. 32, 1999
Subjects: Books--Reviews
...chemistry. In comparison to astronomy in the UK, Germany and France, American astronomy was advantaged in two substantial...Carte du Ciel photographic atlas and catalogue, American...new discipline. American astronomy was also sheltered from...
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CD-Based Reference Tools Serve as Virtual Libraries
Journal article by Jeff Carmona; T H E Journal (Technological Horizons In Education), Vol. 24, 1996
Subjects: 3D Talking Globe: The See and Hear Atlas Gazetter (Electronic reference)--Design and construction, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations Expanded Multimedia Edition (Electronic reference)--Design and construction, Britannica CD (Electronic reference)--Design and construction, Britannica Software Inc.--Products, Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia 1997 (Electronic reference)--Design and construction, Compton's NewMedia--Products, Dorling Kindersley Multimedia Ltd.--Products, Eyewitness Encyclopedia of Space and the Universe (Electronic reference)--Design and construction, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia 1997 (Electronic reference)--Design and construction, Grolier Multimedia Inc.--Products, Jones Digital Century Inc.--Products, Jones Telecommunication and Multimedia Encyclopedia (Electronic reference)--Design and construction, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Deluxe Electronic Edition (Electronic reference)--Design and construction, Merriam-Webster--Products, Microsoft Corp. Multimedia Publishing Group--Products, Microsoft Encarta '96 (Electronic reference)--Design and construction, Now What Software--Products, Our Times: Multimedia Encyclopedia of the 20th Century (Electronic reference)--Design and construction, Rand McNally Children's World Atlas (Children's educational software)--Design and construction, Rand McNally and Co.--Products, Time Warner Electronic Publishing--Products, Vicarious Entertainment--Products, World Book Inc.--Products, World Book Multimedia Encyclopedia (Electronic reference)--Design and construction
...including a history of astronomy, chronology of the "Space...endocrine system, an electronic atlas should do the trick. Like...based encyclopedias, todays atlases go beyond dry facts by adding...version comes with print atlases, desk and wall maps, and 96-page Teachers Guide. 3D Atlas from Creative Wonders shows...commerce. Other noteworthy atlases are DK Multimedias Cartopedia...Comptons Interactive World Atlas. Even youngsters can start...
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"The Globe We Groan In": Astronomical Distance and Stellar Decay in in Memoriam
Journal article by Anna Henchman; Victorian Poetry, Vol. 41, 2003
Subjects: Astronomy--Portrayals, depictions, etc., English literature, 1837-1901 (Victorian age)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Poetry--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Poets--Works, Tennyson, Alfred, Lord--Attitudes, Tennyson, Alfred, Lord--Works
...1868; No. 1836) and Poetry of Astronomy (1881; No. 1837); Norman...Willis Nevins, Christianity and Astronomy (1876; No. 1682); William...Alexander Keith Johnston, School Atlas of Astronomy (1869; No. 1270). (7...
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The Sky
Journal article by Ray Forma; Teaching Science, Vol. 53, 2007
Subjects: Astrographic catalog and chart--Usage, Astronomical charts--Usage, Astronomy--Equipment and supplies, Sky--Observations
...the timing of successful astronomy evenings for students. The best time for an astronomy evening is usually six days...he was producing his star atlas Uranometria, named after Urania, the Greek Muse of Astronomy. He travelled to various...
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Jewels in Junk City: To Read 'Triton.'
Journal article by Russell Blackford; The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Vol. 16, 1996
Subjects: Delany, Samuel R.--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Science fiction--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Triton (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...reliably but that it is likely to be a significant fraction of a g. As noted in Andre Bahic. "Neptune," Cambridge Atlas of Astronomy, 2nd ed. ( 1968), 212, "Triton is sufficiently massive to have an atmosphere and a melted core." The surface...
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magazine articles on: Atlas in Astronomy  - 36 results

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New Encyclopedia and Atlas from Compton's
Magazine article; Computers in Libraries, Vol. 17, January 1997
New Encyclopedia and Atlas from Comptons Comptons NewMedia...and Comptons Interactive World Atlas. The encyclopedia includes...D game for learning about astronomy, is also included on the disc. Comptons says that the World Atlas is a versatile resource for...
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Searching for the Stars: Cosmic Views and Databases
Magazine article by David Mattison; Searcher, Vol. 19, September 2011
Subjects: Astronomy, Observatories, Online data bases, Searches, Space telescopes
...through the NED Image Data Atlas http://irsa.ipac...maintains three essential astronomy databases: SIMBAD http...stsci.edu. The 2MASS Atlas Image Gallery at IPAC...and multi-wavelength astronomy. IPAC also maintains...Stories and aDeepsky Atlas http://www.hawast...
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Two Hundred Fifty Sisters
Magazine article by Joe Rao; Natural History, Vol. 107, December 1998
Subjects: Astronomy
...Pleiades, and there are undoubtedly more. Known variously as the Seven Sisters, the Seven Virgins, and the Daughters of Atlas, the Pleiades have been held in high esteem through the ages. Temples in ancient Greece were built to face them, as was a...
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Pluto's Honor
Magazine article by Neil de Grasse Tyson; Natural History, Vol. 108, February 1999
Subjects: Astronomy, Comets, Planets, Pluto
...New York Citys Rockefeller Center. On its Fifth Avenue side is a sculpture by Lee Lawrie: a large bronze of a well-muscled Atlas holding up the universe. Designed in the late 1920s, this Art Deco masterpiece also barely predates Tombaughs discovery...
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The Space Telescope of the New Millinnium
Magazine article by Mariette Dichristina; Popular Science, Vol. 252, March 1998
Subjects: Astronomy, Future, Space telescopes
...Flight Center of Beltsville, Maryland. Three of the designs feature foldable parts, so the telescope could fit aboard an Atlas-class or other expendable launch rocket. The decision about which design to pursue would likely be made around 2002, so...
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SkyAEs the Limit for Year of Astronomy
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), October 2, 2009
Subjects: Astronomy
...this occasion to host A Day of Astronomy Saturday, Oct. 3, at Waubonsie...about the International Year of Astronomy led by association President...subscriptions to Sky Telescope and Astronomy magazines; free admission...of Sky TelescopeAEs pocket atlas. "WeAEre hoping a lot of...
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Across the Galaxy, Light of Time Shines
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), August 9, 2006
Subjects: Astronomy
...information To learn more about astronomy, the Vernon Area Public...Petersons First Guide To Astronomy" by Jay M. Pasachoff - "The Great Atlas Of The Stars" by Serge Brunier...Geza Gyuk, director of astronomy at the Adler Planetarium...
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First Discovered Planet Was Fit for a King's Name
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), January 10, 2007
Subjects: Astronomy
...Croswell. - "Facts on File Stars Planets Atlas" by Ian Ridpath Mark Szkodyn, 13, asked...for ages," said Geza Gyuk, director of astronomy for Chicagos Adler Planetarium. Astronomy, the study of heavenly bodies, could be...
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Jonathan Cainer
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 23, 2009
Subjects: Eclipses, Eclipses (Astronomy)
...AQUARIUS Jan 21 -- Feb 19 THE story goes that Hercules needed Atlas to do him a favour. He offered to hold up the cosmos for a while, so Atlas would be free to run the errand. Atlas almost managed to leave his post, but Hercules tricked him into...
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Day the Sun Went out; A New British Sci-Fi Movie Envisages the Death of the Sun Not in Billions of Years, but in Decades. and, Amazingly, the Film's Scientific Adviser Says This May Not Be So Far from the Truth
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), March 8, 2007
...highly respected Royal Society University Research Fellow, based at the School of Physics and Astronomy at Manchester University. He is working on the Atlas experiment - a huge project looking at the fundamental nature of matter and the basic forces...
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Atlas , in Astronomy
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ATLAS , in astronomy in astronomy, one of the named moons, or natural satellites, of Saturn . Also known as Saturn XV (or S15), Atlas is a small, irregularly shaped (nonspherical) body measuring...
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Atlas , in Geography
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ATLAS , in geography in geography, collection...its agriculture and main industries. In astronomy, a star atlas is a collection of maps or photographs...other objects. Although the first known atlas was compiled by the Greek geographer Ptolemy...
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Saturn , in Astronomy
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SATURN , in astronomy in astronomy, 6th planet from the sun. Astronomical and Physical Characteristics...Five of the six confirmed shepherd satellites, Pan , Daphnis, Atlas , Prometheus , and Pandora , are named. The co-orbital group...
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Neptune , in Astronomy
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
NEPTUNE , in astronomy in astronomy, 8th planet from the sun at a mean distance of about 2.8 billion...Encounter: The Neptune System (1992); G. E. Hunt et al., Atlas of Neptune (1994). ____________________ Copyright...
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Pleiades , in Astronomy
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
PLEIADES , in astronomy ple dez, pli , in astronomy, famous open star cluster in the constellation Taurus...group was named by the Greeks for the seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione; the seventh Pleiad was, according to legend...
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