MIMAS

mīˈmăs, in astronomy, one of the 18 named moons, or natural satellites, of Saturn. Also known as Saturn I (or S1), Mimas is 244 mi (392 km) in diameter, orbits Saturn at a mean distance of 115,275 mi (185,520 km), and has equal orbital and rotational periods of 0.942 earth days. Mimas was discovered by the English astronomer Sir William Herschel in 1789. Its low density (1.17) indicates that it is composed mostly of water ice with only a small amount of rocky material. The surface is saturated with impact craters. The largest by far—called Herschel—has a diameter of more than 80 mi (130 km), almost a third the diameter of the entire satellite; the walls of this crater are about 3 mi (5 km) high, parts of the floor are about 6 mi (10 km) deep, and the central peak towers almost 4 mi (6 km) above the floor of the crater. Fractures can be seen on the opposite side of Mimas that may have resulted from the same impact. Mimas forms a satellite pair with Tethys; that is, the two moons interact gravitationally.

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books on: Mimas  - 132 results

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Lucan: Spectacle and Engagement
Book by Matthew Leigh; Clarendon Press, 1997
Subjects: Epic Poetry, Latin--History And Criticism, Lucan--39-65--Pharsalia, Pharsalus, Battle Of, 48 B.C., In Literature, Rome--History--Civil War, 49-45 B.C--Literature And The War
...Pholoe is Arcadian, Rhodope Thracian and Mount Mimas Ionian. Though Keil presumes that there existed a second, Thracian Mount Mimas, it is evident that Lucans juxtaposition of Rhodope with Mimas is owed rather to his quotation of Ov. Met. 2...
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Killer Rocks from Outer Space: Asteroids, Comets, and Meteorites
Book by Steven N. Koppes.; Lerner, 2004
Subjects: Asteroids, Comets, Meteorites
...has more than thirty moons, including the oddballs Mimas and Tethys. Mimas gets its strange appearance from the crater Herschel...makes the moon look as if it has a single giant eye. Mimas is nearly 242 miles in diameter. Herschel, at 80...
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Doing Your Research Project: A Guide for First-Time Researchers in Education, Health and Social Science
Book by Judith Bell; Open University Press, 2005
Subjects: Education--Research--Methodology, Social Sciences--Research--Methodology
...cite/. 2 Web of Knowledge (WoK) is hosted by MIMAS (http://www.mimas.ac.uk/) run by Manchester Computing at The...institution, you are entitled to obtain access to most MIMAS services free of charge. You may need to register...
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Biography of Percival Lowell
Book by A. Lawrence Lowell; The Macmillan Company, 1935
Subjects: Astronomy--Observations, Lowell, Percival--1855-1916
...we find these in the order of their potency: With Mimas, 1:2 1:3 1:4 With Enceladus, 1:3 2:3 of Mimas and 1:2; 2:3 of Enceladus falling outside the ring system. 1:2 of Mimas and 1:3 of Enceladus fall in Cassinis division...
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Neokoroi: Greek Cities and Roman Emperors
Book by Barbara Burrell; Brill, 2004
Subjects: Cities And Towns, Ancient--Turkey, Emperor Worship--Rome, Greeks--Turkey--History--To 1500
...The Smyrnaean temple seemed to oppose Mimas. That was the ancient name for the mountainous...about anything in Smyrna would be opposite Mimas in the broader sense, but the verb can...western part of the city, that closest to Mimas, and has been identified by many as the...
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journal articles on: Mimas  - 9 results

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Competition and Inequality: Evidence from the English National Health Service 1991-2001
Journal article by Richard Cookson, Mark Dusheiko, Geoffrey Hardman, Stephen Martin; Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Vol. 20, 2010
Subjects: Competition (Economics)--Influence, Employee incentives--Influence, Health care disparities--Research, United Kingdom. National Health Service--Case studies, United Kingdom. National Health Service--Services
...Health. Census data were provided by the MIMAS service at the University of Manchester...Programme, Census Dissemination Unit, Mimas (University of Manchester). Office for...Programme, Census Dissemination Unit, Mimas (University of Manchester). Payne...
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Graphing Within-subjects Confidence Intervals Using Spss and S-plus
Journal article by Daniel B. Wright; Behavior Research Methods, Vol. 39, 2007
Subjects: Confidence intervals, Studies, Variables
...calculated. Their approach has become popular-their original article being cited over 500 times (Web of Science, wok.mimas.ac.uk, accessed April 22, 2007). The present article uses their procedure. Loftus and Masson discussed in detail how...
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Prenatal Methylmercury Exposure and Developmental Outcomes: Review of the Evidence and Discussion of Future Directions
Journal article by Anne Spurgeon; Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 114, 2006
...www.biosis.org.uk), SciSearch (http:// www.bids.ac.uk), and the Web of Science (http://wok.mimas.ac.uk), using keywords such as "methylmercury," "prenatal exposure," "child development," and "neurobehavior...
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Sources of Public Service Improvement: A Critical Review and Research Agenda
Journal article by George A. Boyne; Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Vol. 13, 2003
Subjects: Municipal services--Management, Public administration--Research
...Second, a "keywords in title or abstract" search was undertaken through the Web of Science database (http://wos.mimas.ac.uk), which contains the contents of the worlds major social science journals (from fields such as economics, management...
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Exploratory Analysis of Spatial Data Using Interactive Maps and Data Mining
Journal article by N. Andrienko, G. Andrienko, A. Savinov, H. Voss, D. Wettschereck; Cartography and Geographic Information Science, Vol. 28, 2001
Subjects: Databases--Analysis, Geographic information systems--Analysis, Statistics--Technique
...British Census 1991 data. This system, along with the census data, is accessible through the Internet (http:// www.mimas.ac.uk/descartes/) for the academic community of the UK. Within the EU-funded CommonGIS project (http://commongis...
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magazine articles on: Mimas  - 20 results

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Counting Heads around the World: the Genealogy of International Census Database, Part I
Magazine article by David Mattison; Searcher, Vol. 10, June 2002
Subjects: About.com Inc, Bureau of the Census, Census of Population, Demographics, Europe, Genealogy, Information retrieval, International, Manycompanies, Online data bases, Search engines, United States, Web sites
...census and statistical data in an educational setting. MIMAS http://www.mimas.ac.uk/ or Manchester Information Associated Services...information, for eligible U.K. institutions. The MIMAS Census Dissemination Unit http://census.ac...
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Online at London Online
Magazine article by Marydee Ojala; Searcher, Vol. 9, April 2001
Subjects: Information industry, International, Trade shows, United Kingdom, United States
...COPAC http:/ /www.copac.ac.uk, a MIMAS service, funded by JISC, using records supplied by CURL. MIMAS also provides the U.K. mirror for JSTOR...records dating from as long ago as 1100 AD. MIMAS has something to do with the University...
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Ict on Line
Magazine article by Richard Young, Andy Beharrell; Teaching Business & Economics, Vol. 5, Autumn 2001
...Web) is the result of a cooperation between MIMAS at the University of Manchester and Biz/ed. MIMAS hold a wide range of datasets including ONS...standard Web-based interface. To do this MIMAS have developed a simple Java interface to...
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Five Early-career Librarians Named Sla Rising Stars
Magazine article; Information Outlook, Vol. 14, April 2010
Subjects: Awards & honors, Libraries, Marketing, Patents, Research, Special Libraries Association, Studies, Technological change
...College. Bethan Ruddock is a content development officer at Mimas, a center of excellence based at the University of Manchester...Kingdom. She works with the library and archival services team at Mimas to investigate and implement sustainable content development...
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The Whole Enceladus: A New Place to Search for Life in the Outer Solar System
Magazine article by Ron Cowen; Science News, Vol. 169, May 6, 2006
Subjects: Enceladus (Satellite)--Analysis, Enceladus (Satellite)--Natural history, Enceladus (Satellite)--Research
...ice and rock. Indeed, a similar-size Saturnian moon called Mimas shows no geological activity. Yet Enceladus plume flouts that...has a relatively rocky, much larger core than the inactive Mimas does. Coalescing about 3 million years after the birth of the...
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newspaper articles on: Mimas  - 132 results

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Man Reveals Possible Clue to Mima's Killer
Newspaper article; The Morning Bulletin (Rockhampton, Australia), March 31, 2010
Man Reveals Possible Clue to Mimas Killer. Byline: Melinda Siegmeier melinda...missing 21 year old. MARCH 18, 1967: Mimas wallet is found near Gin Gin. MARCH 26...Creek, east of Biloela. APRIL 4, 1967: Mimas funeral takes place at St Pauls Cathedral...
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It's Time to Party; Events It's a Piece of Cake to Celebrate Mima's Anniversary
Newspaper article; Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England), January 23, 2009
...Events Its a Piece of Cake to Celebrate Mimas Anniversary. ITS happy birthday mima on...students and staff and will be featured on mimas website. The cake will be presented to...major works by Rie and Coper drawn from mimas collection. It also launches the long...
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Slice of Mima's History; Enter Cake Contest to Mark 'Birthday'
Newspaper article; Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England), January 15, 2009
Slice of Mimas History; Enter Cake Contest to Mark Birthday...and staff. It will also be featured on mimas website. The cake will be presented to...Art works IN the two years since opening, mimas key achievements include: The public voted...
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A Real Head Turner; Keith Newton Toured Mima's New Major Exhibition Which Opens Today:
Newspaper article; Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England), August 28, 2009
Subjects: Artists--Exhibitions
...Real Head Turner; Keith Newton Toured Mimas New Major Exhibition Which Opens Today:. TWO heads set the first challenge at mimas exceptional new exhibition. On the one...Pictured above, and on the front cover with mimas Kirsty Bullock, their eyes are closed...
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COSTS QUESTIONED; ...as Mima's Pounds 10k Foreign Travel Bill's Approved
Newspaper article; Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England), August 31, 2010
Subjects: Bills, Legislative--Economic aspects, Bills, Legislative--Laws, regulations and rules, Legislative bills--Economic aspects, Legislative bills--Laws, regulations and rules
COSTS QUESTIONED; ...as Mimas Pounds 10k Foreign Travel Bills Approved...travel costs are aimed at developing mimas art collection, developing exhibitions...artists and institutions. One reason for mimas foreign travel costs is that in 2007...
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encyclopedia articles on: Mimas  - 2 results

 
 
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Mimas
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MIMAS mi mas, in astronomy, one of the named...Saturn . Also known as Saturn I (or S1), Mimas is 244 mi (392 km) in diameter, orbits...rotational periods of 0.942 earth days. Mimas was discovered by the English astronomer...
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Saturn , in Astronomy
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...large group comprises four satellites, Mimas , Enceladus , Tethys , and Dione ; the...Anthe, and Pallene) have orbits between Mimas and Enceladus. The Trojan group, also...most prominent feature of heavily cratered Mimas, the innermost of the six, is a large...


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