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    The Guadeloupe raccoon (Procyon lotor minor) is a common raccoon subspecies endemic to the two main islands (Basse-Terre Island and Grande-Terre) of Guadeloupe...
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    Procyon (/ˈproʊsi.ɒn/) is the brightest star in the constellation of Canis Minor and usually the eighth-brightest star in the night sky, with an apparent...
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    constellation of Orion the hunter. Canis Minor contains only two stars brighter than the fourth magnitude, Procyon (Alpha Canis Minoris), with a magnitude...
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    Procyon is a genus of nocturnal mammals comprising three species commonly known as raccoons in the family Procyonidae. The most familiar species, the...
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  • Procyon is the name of the brightest star in the constellation of Canis Minor. Procyon may also refer to: Procyon (genus), a genus of nocturnal mammals...
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    Island raccoon (category Procyon (genus))
    Barbados until 1964 Cozumel raccoon (Procyon pygmaeus): species endemic on Cozumel Guadeloupe raccoon (Procyon lotor minor): subspecies of the common raccoon...
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    Raccoon (redirect from Procyon lotor)
    The raccoon (/rəˈkuːn/ or US: /ræˈkuːn/ , Procyon lotor), also spelled racoon and sometimes called the common raccoon or northern raccoon to distinguish...
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  • PROCYON (Proximate Object Close flyby with Optical Navigation) was an asteroid flyby space probe that was launched together with Hayabusa2 on 3 December...
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    at Sirius, Betelgeuse, and Procyon, the primary stars in the three constellations of Canis Major, Orion, and Canis Minor, respectively. For much of the...
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  • (UK-APC) after the star Procyon in the constellation of Canis Minor.  This article incorporates public domain material from "Procyon Peaks". Geographic Names...
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    Beta Canis Minoris (category Canis Minor)
    star in the constellation of Canis Minor. In the night sky it is notable for its proximity to the prominent star Procyon. β Canis Minoris (Latinised to Beta...
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  • 4 November 2002. Retrieved 23 April 2013. "Due to ion engine failure, PROCYON will not fly by an asteroid". "NASA Continues Psyche Asteroid Mission"...
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    USS Procyon (AKA-2) was an Arcturus-class attack cargo ship of the United States Navy, named after Procyon, a star in the constellation Canis Minor. She...
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    form of a hexagon with vertices at Rigel, Aldebaran, Capella, Pollux, Procyon, and Sirius. It is mostly upon the Northern Hemisphere's celestial sphere...
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    225S. doi:10.1016/j.actaastro.2017.05.016. "Due to ion engine failure, PROCYON will not fly by an asteroid". The Planetary Society. NASA prepares to launch...
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    Tau). A line eastward across the two shoulders indicates the direction of Procyon (α CMi). A line from Rigel through Betelgeuse points to Castor and Pollux...
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    winter and comprises the first magnitude stars Betelgeuse, Sirius and Procyon (the second and fourth closest star or star system visible without aid)...
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  • constellation Canis Minor, sorted by decreasing brightness. Lists of stars by constellation Bode's λ of both Argo and Canis Minor. Flamsteed's 13th of...
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    2013 Deep Impact 2014 LADEE Venus Express Chang'e 5-T1 2015 MESSENGER PROCYON IKAROS 2016 Rosetta / Philae Yutu rover ExoMars Schiaparelli 2017 LISA...
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  • Luyten's Star (category Canis Minor)
    67 parsecs. The star is currently located 1.2 light years distant from Procyon, which would appear as a visual magnitude −4.5 star in the night sky of...
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    HD 61563 (category Canis Minor)
    HD 61563 is a star in the constellation of Canis Minor. It is an optical binary with Procyon and a white giant crossing the Hertzsprung gap[citation needed]...
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    Mesocarnivores Coyote (Canis latrans) River otter (Lontra canadensis) Raccoon (Procyon lotor) Mongoose (Herpestidae) Red fox (Vulpes vulpes) Striped skunk (Mephitis...
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  • ('kinglet'); and arguably Aldebaran ('the follower' [of the Pleiades]) and Procyon ('preceding the dog' [Sirius]). The same holds for Chinese star names,...
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  • release, in July 1998, he resigned to work as a freelance artist and formed Procyon Studio to produce his work, though he continued to do work for Square such...
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  • heliacal rising of either Sirius in Canis Major or Procyon (the "Little Dog Star") in Canis Minor and vary by latitude, not even being visible throughout...
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  • Scorpius, and the "blue eye" of Canis Minor is Procyon. The "guide of the pilgrimage of the sky" on the brow of Ursa Minor is thought to refer to Polaris, which...
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    65803 Didymos (category Minor planet object articles (numbered))
    successfully visit an asteroid known to have a minor-planet moon (The binary asteroid 2000 DP107 was targeted by the PROCYON mission before it failed, 243 Ida was...
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  • 2013 Deep Impact 2014 LADEE Venus Express Chang'e 5-T1 2015 MESSENGER PROCYON IKAROS 2016 Rosetta / Philae Yutu rover ExoMars Schiaparelli 2017 LISA...
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    October 2018. "PROCYON". Gunter's Space Page. Retrieved 23 September 2015. Lakdawalla, Emily (8 May 2015). "Due to ion engine failure, PROCYON will not fly...
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  • Non-Stop (novel) (category Fiction set around Procyon)
    multi-generational starship returning from a newly-colonised planet in the Procyon star system. In a previous generation, the ship's inhabitants had suffered...
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