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    Pallas (minor-planet designation: 2 Pallas) is the third-largest asteroid in the Solar System by volume and mass. It is the second asteroid to have been...
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  • up Pallas or pallas in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pallas may refer to: 2 Pallas asteroid Pallas family, a group of asteroids that includes 2 Pallas...
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    comets, and in 1802 and 1807, discovered the second and the fourth asteroids Pallas and Vesta. Olbers was born in Arbergen, Germany, today part of Bremen, and...
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    Although they did not discover Ceres, they later found the asteroids 2 Pallas, 3 Juno and 4 Vesta. One of the astronomers selected for the search was...
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  • Hyginus says that Pallas, whom he calls "the giant", also fathered with Styx: Scylla, Fontus ("Fountains") and Lacus ("Lakes"). Pallas was sometimes regarded...
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    Athena (redirect from Athena Pallas)
    young woman". On this topic, Walter Burkert says "she is the Pallas of Athens, Pallas Athenaie, just as Hera of Argos is Here Argeie." In later times...
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    experiences a wide range of temperatures. The Pallas's cat was first described in 1776 by Peter Simon Pallas, who observed it in the vicinity of Lake Baikal...
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    discovered in 1906, 588 Achilles, and the current total is over 6,000. 1 Ceres 2 Pallas 3 Juno 4 Vesta 5 Astraea 6 Hebe 7 Iris 8 Flora 9 Metis 10 Hygiea 12 Victoria...
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    common in the Solar System. Ceres and Pallas have mineral compositions similar to carbonaceous chondrites, though Pallas is significantly less hydrated. Coreless...
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    Veneneia. Pallas (2.15–2.57 AU) is the third-largest object in the asteroid belt. It has its own Pallas asteroid family. Not much is known about Pallas because...
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    between 1767 and 1810. Peter Simon Pallas was born in Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia, the son of Professor of Surgery Simon Pallas. He studied with private tutors...
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    inclinations in the intermediate asteroid belt. The namesake of the family is 2 Pallas, an extremely large asteroid with a mean diameter of about 512 km. The...
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  • including 1 Ceres (a reaper's sickle, encoded U+26B3 ⚳ CERES), 2 Pallas (a lance, U+26B4 ⚴ PALLAS) and 3 Juno (a sceptre, encoded U+26B5 ⚵ JUNO). Encke (1850)...
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  • Pallas (/ˈpæləs/; Ancient Greek: for male Πάλλας, gen. Πάλλαντος and for female Παλλάς, gen. Παλλάδος) may refer to the following figures: Pallas, the...
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    after the asteroid Pallas, which was itself named after the epithet of the Greek goddess Athena, acquired by her when she slew Pallas. Palladium, platinum...
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    Measurements give it a nominal volume only slightly larger than that of Pallas (about 5% greater), but it is 25% to 30% more massive. It constitutes an...
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    as "Pallas Athene", this is the second asteroid discovered and the third in mass. There are many Pallases in mythology. Some sources say Pallas was Triton's...
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    close to a 1:1 mean-motion orbital resonance with Pallas (their proper orbital periods differ by 0.2%), but not close enough to be significant over astronomical...
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    sickle was chosen as a symbol of the planet. The symbol for 2 Pallas, the spear of Pallas Athena, was invented by Baron Franz Xaver von Zach, who organized...
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  • Mazda 2, a Japanese hatchback Tai Wo station, Hong Kong; MTR station code TWO Nikola Two, a proposed electric semi-truck tractor unit 2 Pallas, a large...
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  • In Greek mythology, Pallas (/ˈpæləs/; Ancient Greek: Παλλάς, romanized: Pallás) was a warrior and a daughter of Triton. After Athena was born fully armed...
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    associate their name with the asteroid 2 Pallas but their actual name is after the German naturalist Peter Pallas (1741–1811), who studied in 1772 a specimen...
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    is sometimes confused with the astronomical crossed-spear symbol ⚴ for 2 Pallas.) The variation known as brimstone has a symbol combining a two-barred...
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    the main asteroid belt, although several family-like groups such as the Pallas family, Hungaria family, and the Phocaea family lie at smaller semi-major...
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    Juno family. Juno was originally considered a planet, along with 1 Ceres, 2 Pallas, and 4 Vesta. In 1811, Schröter estimated Juno to be as large as 2290 km...
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    2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22720592A132002623.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021. Clement, Peter; Arkhipov, Vladimir (2020). "Pallas's Rosefinch (Carpodacus...
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    diameter-ratio (for the binary system) can often be derived. On 29 May 1983, 2 Pallas occulted the naked-eye bright spectroscopic binary star 1 Vulpeculae along...
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    discovered a second object in the same region, Pallas. Unlike the other known planets, Ceres and Pallas remained points of light even under the highest...
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    Russian natural historian Peter Simon Pallas. To the northwest is the smaller but less worn crater Bode. Pallas shares a low wall with the crater Murchison...
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    report "Mount Pallas: fictions and facts" with detailed refutations of distortions of facts. 1) P. S. Pallas has no connection with Pallas Mountain, as...
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