Sentences with phrase «planet named after»

Every procedurally generated planet needs a name and if you contribute $ 150 you'll be immortalized by being among the list of those uber enough to have a planet named after them.

The Goddess of Strife is the Latin equivalent to Greece's Belona and even has a dwarf planet named after her.

Not exact matches

I am the link between the inside — Earth — and the outside — Planet Sparky (named after my alien - looking French bulldog).

Believers and non-believers alike, united by a common concern for the future of the planet, have high hopes that someone who chose to name himself after that great lover of creation, Francis of Assisi, will say something truly transformational, for as a Canadian Council of Churches document lamentably observes, transformative change has not «found traction within political processes.»

Why a non-terrestrial culture would name their planet after a figure in ancient Roman mythology is open to question (Romulus and Remus were reared by a she - wolf and went on to found the city of Rome, which also takes its name from Romulus).

Like you get to be Kings and Gods of your own planets after you die, oh, wait, that's already taken by the Mormons... but seriously, why are you so self centered to think you get to live on even though your life span is no greater than that of some tortoises (in fact one tortoise named Hanako lived to the very ripe age of 226 years).

And since all the planets are named after pagan Roman deities, we shouldn't talk about our study our solar system.

Gas planets are named after gods, not proof of them 5.

This comes after an interview that Wayne Rooney gave to United's official website where he named Smalling as one of the best defenders on the planet right now.

Ancient stargazers chose well when they named the solar system's largest planet, Jupiter, after the king of the Roman gods.

«There aren't too many other universities on the whole planet with asteroids named after them.

Named after the mythological god Jupiter's wife, who could see through her husband's tricks, Juno will peer through the planet's atmosphere, measure its composition and map its powerful magnetosphere.

The IAU, perhaps seeking to improve its reputation after demoting Pluto to a dwarf planet, chose the names based on a 2013 Internet poll.

Bellerophon The nickname for 51 Pegasi b, the first planet found around a sunlike star, named after the Greek mythological hero who rode the winged horse Pegasus, which by no coincidence is the constellation of the host star.

In 2014, the international collaboration of scientists known as the Pale Red Dot — named in homage to Carl Sagan, who described Earth as a Pale Blue Dot — banded together after astronomers noticed the periodic signal of a possible planet coming from the star every 11.2 days.

At a time when modern humans were beginning to leave Africa and the Neanderthals were living on our planet, Scholz's star — named after the German astronomer who discovered it — approached less than a light - year from the Sun.

They even gave the putative new planet a name: Vulcan, after the Roman god of fire, fitting for a world whose surface temperature would be hot enough to melt lead and zinc.

You could name a crater or a whole planet after your pet cat, Mohammed or Justin Bieber.

There are, after all, too many planets to name — the hundreds of billions that likely populate our galaxy alone exceed our meager vocabularies.

After the planet was discovered in 1930, an 11 - year - old girl who lived in Oxford, England, by the name of Venetia Burney, suggested that this new planet needed to be named after the Roman god of the underwAfter the planet was discovered in 1930, an 11 - year - old girl who lived in Oxford, England, by the name of Venetia Burney, suggested that this new planet needed to be named after the Roman god of the underwafter the Roman god of the underworld.

Almost three years after NASA's New Horizons deep space probe made its historic flyby of Pluto, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) has released the first list of official names for features on the face of the dwarf planet's largest moon, Charon.

This talk, featured at the Keck Week Science Meeting in March 2013, describes several objects discovered and characterized in our outer solar system including Haumea, a dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt named after the Hawaiian goddess.

All the planets except Earth are named after gods and goddesses from Greco - Roman mythology.

Some of the dwarf planet's features were named after mythologies around the world.

The dwarf planet, just 870 miles in diameter and discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2005, is named after a creation deity of the Rapa Nui people of Easter Island.

The planetary system was named TRAPPIST - 1 after The Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope (TRAPPIST) in Chile.

Burney crater is named after Venetia Burney, who was only 11 years old when she suggested the name «Pluto» for the newly - discovered dwarf planet.

The star is so bright that it was given its name to mean «anti-Ares,» likely because its reddish color seemed to oppose that of the shiny planet Mars, named after Ares, the ancient Greek god of war.

Maybe because it appears as a speck of blood in the sky, the planet Mars was named after the Roman god of war.

On about the 30th try, he observed the first transit of the planets around TRAPPIST - 1, named after the telescope.

The planet is named Pluto after the God of the Underworld in Roman mythology.

With respect to the fixed stars, the Sun appears from Earth to revolve once a year along the ecliptic through the zodiac, and so the Sun was considered by Greek astronomers to be one of the seven planets (Greek planetes, «wanderer»), after which the seven days of the week are named in some languages.

In recent months, the astronomer José Luis Galache at the Minor Planet Center put forth a request that an asteroid be named after Iain M. Banks.

Despite the frustratingly idiotic naming of this new series (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes comes after Rise of the Plant of the Apes, really?)

«Him» was created by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee for Fantastic Four # 66 in 1967, but after fighting Thor (because he tried to mate with Thor's girlfriend Lady Sif), «Him» gets lost in space and meets the High Evolutionary, who names him «Warlock» and gives him the Soul Gem to protect the (also artificial) planet Counter-Earth.

After years spent working on several undercooked drafts of the story — the most infamous involving a wooden planet home to a sect of space monks — Ripley's further adventures battling the xenomorph eventually got the greenlight with then first - time director Fincher, having made his name on music videos, became attached to the project.

Much has changed in a decade: «PIA» as he code - named her, has grown up and is about to attend her first Alliance of Planets summit conference, and Brock has been transformed into a cyborg after a near - fatal attack.

He was even more amazed when a planet and several creatures were named after him.

Another World is a platform game that sees you, a physicist named Lester Chaykin, warped through a hole in time and space to a mysterious, alien planet after an experiment goes horribly wrong when a lightning bolt hits your laboratory.

BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL is a sci - fi action game starring a female operative name JADE who agrees to work for a covert group known as IRIS after her home planet of Hyliss falls under attack from an aggressive race of aliens.

Pikmin 3 takes place some time after the previous games, and instead tells the tales of three new explorers named Alph, Brittany, and Charlie, who have come to the Pikmin homeworld in search of a new food source for their ailing planet.

Particularly after you enter your player's name, your planet's name, your worlds name and so forth.

Sonic and his new friend (named Chip after the little guy's craving for all things chocolate) have to travel the globe to revive the Chaos Emeralds and put the planet back together before Robotnik can completely take over.

Imagine finding a planet and naming it after yourself for all of the No Man's Sky online community to see.

ReCore is a third - person action platformer set on a rocky, desert - covered planet named New Eden, the site of a terraforming project meant to create a new home for humanity after Earth is ravaged by dust storms and needs to be evacuated.

In 2000, after a century of earlier efforts by scholars, scientists, and at least one journalist (me) to give a name to humanity's emerging role as a planet - scale force, one word emerged in a heated moment at a global change conference in Cuernavaca, Mexico — anthropocene.

Kieran's solution to the problem is to name the epoch after the radical homogenization of the planet's species (along with the extinction of many).

In fact, the world's interconnected ocean as a whole is sliding into the Holocene Mass Extinction, the geological event that some scientists use to divide the boundary of the Holocene and the Anthropocene epoch, the one that's named after us — and that may still be visible in the Earth's geological record hundreds of millions of years from now, because species of fish, shellfish, crustaceans and other marine life, that were abundant on this planet for millions of years — suddenly, in less than the blink of a geologist's eye, vanished — for good.

... Fred S. Singer, if you read this, or if somebody who knows you, At KTH Stockholm, September 2006, did you get my pun about the outliers being «outliars»??? And BTW, you are 39 years older on the day than the love of my life... and there are only 2 women having that name on this very planet if not a bunch are having secret numbers... if you generous and dot - omitting, the Texan one... Anectdotal and OT... On topic, always adjustments upwards, after a while... Svenska Dagbladet, Sweden's 2nd biggest morning paper, publish monthly average temps, precipitation etc for Sweden in general and Stockholm in particular, the April «presentation» «already» May 26 or something like that, and, regarding Stockholm Observatory [inner city] 1,0 C too high....

The current concentration is about 394 parts per million (ppm), and McKibben had considered naming the group «450,» after a concentration goal some researchers say would help protect the planet from climate change's most adverse impacts.