Peter Ifland Peter Ifland, Cmdr. USNR (retired), Ph.D., is author of Taking the Stars: Celestial Navigation
from Argonauts to Astronauts and a worldwide lecturer on navigation and instruments.
Not exact matches
Buoyed by a substantial offer
from the Toronto
Argonauts of the Canadian Football League — reported in the week leading up to the draft to be a two - year, $ 6 million deal — Ismail's bevy of agents, lawyers and advisers, a.k.a. Team Rocket, proceeded to price him out of the NFL.
That didn't stop Jeanne Villepreux - Power
from solving an ancient mystery about the
argonaut's shell
Named after the ship Argo
from Greek mythology that carried Jason and the
Argonauts on their quest for the Golden Fleece.
Geometric triangulation using the measured, exact arrival times of the signal at the individual satellites enabled astronomers to determine that the burst and its afterglow came
from a point just inside the northeastern corner (6:13:31.0 - 51:56:40, J2000 and 6:13:31.08 - 51:56:41.7, ICRS 2000.0) of southern Constellation Carina, the «Keel» of the mythological ship of the
Argonauts known as the ARGO NAVIS — found northwest of Canopus (Alpha Carinae); west of Tau Puppis; north of Delta Pictoris, and east of Beta Pictoris.
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