PALLAS, in Astronomy

pălˈəs, in astronomy, 2d asteroid to be discovered. It was found in 1802 by H. Olbers. The second largest asteroid, it has a diameter of c.300 mi (480 km). Its orbit has a semimajor axis of 2.78 astronomical units and a period of 1,684 days.

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The Story of Astronomy
Book by Lloyd Motz, Jefferson Hane Weaver; Perseus Publishing, 1995
Subjects: Astronomy--History
Observational astronomy cont . precision in, 39 , 134 , 136...University, Savilian professorship of astronomy, 137 Oxygen, electron arrangements, 231 Padua, University of, 61 , 91 , 97 Pallas, 178 Palomar Observatory, optical...
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Makers of Astronomy
Book by Hector MacPherson; Clarendon Press, 1933
Subjects: Astronomers, Astronomy--History
...second body, which its discoverer named Pallas, was moving in an orbit almost similar...on 29 March 1807. After discovering Pallas, Olbers sought to explain why there were...perihelion in 1887. His chief work in cometary astronomy was on the great comet of 1811. His careful...
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Astronomy: A Revision of Young's Manual of Astronomy - Vol. 1
Book by Henry Norris Russell, Raymond Smith Dugan, John Quincy Stewart; Ginn, 1926
Subjects: Astronomy, Solar System
...elements of, 350 ; diameter and albedo of, 351 ; largest Ceres, Pallas, Juno, Vesta , 351 ; estimated density and mass of, 352...186 ; methods of determining, 187 ; accepted value of, 188 Astronomy, defined, 1 ; relation of, to other sciences, 3 ; value...
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Larousse Encyclopedia of Astronomy
Book by Lucien Rudaux, G. Vaucouleurs De, F. L. Whipple; Prometheus Press, 1962
Subjects: Astronomy
...160 , 288 P P waves, through Earth 110 Packing fraction 357 Pallas 63 , 205 , 208 Pan 216 Paneth 430 Parabola, orbit 14 , 229...volcanic eruption 107 , 110 ; see Stars, Sun, energy Radio astronomy 471 Radio observation 262 Radio sources in Galaxy 474 Radio...
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A Dictionary of Astronomy
Book by Ian Ridpath; Oxford University Press, 1997
Subjects: Astronomy--Dictionaries
...sometimes at the centre of concentric rings. Pallas Asteroid 2, the second asteroid to be...triaxial ellipsoid, 559 O 532 O 525 km. Pallas is of B class, with a spectrum similar...after the German naturalist Peter Simon Pallas 1741-1811 , who found a 680-kg specimen...
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The Academy of Sciences
Journal article; Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 97, 2007
Subjects: Anti-Semitism, Appointments & personnel changes, Liquid assets, Religion
...of I. P. Kulibin and detested Peter Pallas, a geographer, naturalist, paleontologist...Among them was his academic director, Pallas, who was unable to sway the determined...went on to become an academician, while Pallas would continue to be her enemy; there...
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Down to Earth and Up to Heaven: the Nine Muses in Martin le Franc's "le Champion Des Dames"
Journal article by Steven Millen Taylor; Fifteenth Century Studies, Vol. 32, 2007
...wields a writing tablet and stylus. Urania, the deity of astronomy, holds a celestial globe and staff, and Terpsichore, the...Reason state: Minerva ... was a maiden of Greece and surnamed Pallas. This maiden was of such excellence of mind that the foolish...


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magazine articles on: Pallas in Astronomy  - 2 results

 
 
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Is Harmony at the Heart of Things?
Magazine article by Anthony Aveni; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 25, Winter 2001
Subjects: Astronomy--History, Calendar, Maya--Analysis, Harmony--Analysis
...asteroid, which he called Pallas. Its slow but perceptible...formula in most elementary astronomy texts you can use to figure...perceptible, in fields as varied as astronomy, music, and calendar making...meets time on the turf of astronomy. One of the basic functions...
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Cosmos on the Table
Magazine article by Neil Degrasse Tyson; Natural History, Vol. 111, July 2002
Subjects: Chemical elements
...Heinrich Olbers, this object was named for Pallas Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom and...identified in the solar system. Ceres and Pallas are asteroids, not planets, and they...regard, one could argue that Ceres, Pallas, and Pluto slipped into the periodic...


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A Burning Devotion; ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), March 17, 2010
...pagan ritual as a sacrifice e.g. Virgils Aeneid has his son Pallas was with him, and with him were all the leading young men...in Sparta, was famed for his saws; In Myletus did Thales astronomy teach; Bias used in Priene his morals to preach; Cleobulus...
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Sacred Smoke Signals
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), March 17, 2010
...pagan ritual as a sacrifice e.g. Virgils Aeneid has his son Pallas was with him, and with him were all the leading young men...in Sparta, was famed for his saws; In Myletus did Thales astronomy teach; Bias used in Priene his morals to preach; Cleobulus...
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A Burning Devotion; ANSWER TO CORRESPONDENTS
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), March 17, 2010
...pagan ritual as a sacrifice e.g. Virgils Aeneid has his son Pallas was with him, and with him were all the leading young men...in Sparta, was famed for his saws; In Myletus did Thales astronomy teach; Bias used in Priene his morals to preach; Cleobulus...
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The Odour of Sanctity; ANSWER TO CORRESPONDENTS
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), March 17, 2010
...rituals as a sacrifice, as Virgils Aeneid describes: His son Pallas was with him, and with him were all the leading young men...in Sparta, was famed for his saws; In Myletus did Thales astronomy teach; Bias used in Priene his morals to preach; Cleobulus...


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Pallas , in Astronomy
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
PALLAS , in astronomy pal s, in astronomy, 2d asteroid to be discovered. It was found in 1802 by H. Olbers. The second largest asteroid, it has a diameter of c.300 mi (480 km). Its orbit has a semimajor axis of 2.78 astronomical units...


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