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	20000 Varuna
		Varuna sits with his wife Varuni on a throne of diamonds and the deities of the rivers, lakes, and springs of the world form his court.
		Varuna is the custodian of the various demons of the ocean.
		Varuna is often shown as a fair-skinned man who rides either a crocodile, or a monstrous fish named Makara which has an antelope's head and legs, or a chariot drawn by seven swans; he holds a serpent, a noose, a conch shell and a vessel of gems in each of his four hands.
	www.geocities.com /mahtezcatpoc/varuna.html (324 words)

	Varuna information - Search.com
		In Vedic religion, Varuna (váruṇa) is a god of the sky, of rain and of the celestial ocean, as well as a god of law and of the underworld.
		Varuna and Mitra are the gods of the oath, often twinned or identified as Mitra-Varuna (a dvandva compound).
		Varuna later became the god of oceans and rivers and keeper of the souls of the drowned.
	domainhelp.search.com /reference/Varuna (536 words)

	Varuna - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Varuna and Mitra are the gods of the oath, often twinned or identified as Mitra-Varuna (a dvandva compound).
		This may misrepresent the actual importance of Varuna in early Vedic society due to the focus of the Rigveda on fire and Soma ritual, Soma being closely associated with Indra; Varuna with his omniscience and omnipotence in the affairs of men has many aspects of a supreme deity.
		Varuna later became the god of oceans and rivers and keeper of the souls of the drowned.
	en.wikipedia.4it.com.pl /wiki/Varuna (552 words)

	Varuna
		Varuna is the master of rta, which is the energy that keeps the universe running on time and as it should.
		Varuna is a lunar deity, depicted in art as a white man wearing golden armor and holding a noose or lasso made from a snake.
		He is perhaps most strongly associated with rain; after Indra took his former position as overlord of the universe, Varuna became the god of oceans and rivers and keeper of the souls of the drowned.
	www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/v/va/varuna.html (205 words)

	Varuna - South Africa
		Varuna and Mitra are the gods of the oath, often twinned or identified as Mitra-Varuna (a dvandva compound).
		Varuna later became the god of oceans and rivers and keeper of the souls of the drowned.
		Varuna's role may be compared to that of Poseidon in Greek mythology.
	varuna.zdnet.co.za /zdnet/Varuna (1483 words)

	Varuna (minor planet 20000)
		Varuna, Pluto's big moon Charon, and Pluto compared in size
		It was discovered by R. Macmillan of the Spacewatch project on Nov. 28, 2000, and provisionally designated 2000 WR106 before being permanently named after the Hindu god Varuna.
		It moves in a near-circular orbit with a semi-major axis of about 43 AU, similar to that of 50000 Quaoar but more inclined.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/V/Varuna.html (131 words)

	This article is about the god See 20000 Varuna 20000...
		Varuna is the master of rta rta, which is the energy that keeps the universe running on time and as it should.
		Varuna is a lunar deity lunar deity, depicted in art art as a white man wearing gold golden armor and holding a noose noose or lasso lasso made from a snake snake.
		He is perhaps most strongly associated with rain rain; after Indra took his former position as overlord of the universe, Varuna became the god of ocean oceans and river rivers and keeper of the souls of the drowned.
	www.biodatabase.de /Varuna (308 words)

	Varuna ( 2000 WR106 ) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Varuna is seen as a white man in golden armor riding a Makara (a sea monster), holding a noose or lasso made from a snake.
		He was worshiped with veneration and a healthy amount of fear, for as an asura Varuna did have his sinister aspects and was known to punish mortals who did not keep their word.
		Varuna became god of the oceans and rivers, which was still quite important.
	ephemeral.info /txt/varuna.shtml (938 words)

	Varuna Summary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Varuna is also twinned with Indra in the Rigveda, as Indra-Varuna.
		Later art depicts Varuna as a lunar deity, as a white man wearing golden armor and holding a noose or lasso made from a snake.
		Varuna may be loosely connected to Poseidon in Greek mythology or Neptune in Roman mythology.
	www.bookrags.com /Varuna (1621 words)

	varuna
		Planet =}}In Vedic religion, Varuna (Devanagari:à¤µà¤°à¥à¤£, IAST:) is a god of the sky, of rain and of the celestial ocean, as well as a god of law and of the underworld.
		Later art depicts Varuna as a lunar deity, as a yellow man wearing golden armor and holding a noose or lasso made from a snake.
		Varuna's role may be compared to that of Poseidon in Greek mythology.
	www.holydaytravel.com /wiki/?title=Varuna (606 words)

	20000 Varuna - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Varuna compared to Eris, Pluto, 2005 FY Sedna, Orcus, Quaoar, and Earth.
		At 43 AU and on a near-circular orbit, unlike Pluto which is in 2:3 orbital resonance with Neptune, Varuna is free from any significant perturbation from Neptune.
		Varuna has a rotational period of approximately 3.17 hours (or 6.34 hours, depending on whether the light curve is single or double-peaked).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/20000_Varuna (634 words)

	20000 Varuna - South Africa
		Varuna is classified as a classical trans-Neptunian object and follows a near-circular orbit with a semi-major axis of ~43 AU, similar to that of Quaoar but more inclined.
		Interestingly, the orbits of Varuna and Pluto have similar inclination and are similarly oriented (the nodes of both orbits are quite close).
		Varuna has a rotational period of approximately 3.17 hours (or 6.34 hours, depending on whether the light curve is single or double-peaked).
	20000-varuna.zdnet.co.za /zdnet/20000_Varuna (1060 words)

	Spaceflight Now \| Breaking News \| Pluto's little brother
		In an effort to independently determine both the size and albedo of Varuna, astronomers David Jewitt and Herve Aussel of the University of Hawaii and Aaron Evans of the State University of New York at Stony Brook simultaneously observed the KBO using two telescopes atop Mauna Kea, Hawaii.
		One observed Varuna at visible wavelengths to record the amount of sunlight it reflected, while the other observed at submillimeter wavelengths -- a region of the electromagnetic spectrum beyond the infrared -- to measure the amount of flbody radiation the body emitted.
		While Varuna is somewhat more reflective that earlier estimated, it is march darker than Charon, which has an albedo of over 30%, even though the two objects have similar sizes.
	www.spaceflightnow.com /news/n0105/25varuna (620 words)

	Dave Jewitt: Size and Albedo of Kuiper Belt Object (20000) Varuna (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		(20000) Varuna has equivalent circular diameter D = 900(+125/-145) km and red geometric albedo p = 0.070(+0.030/-0.017).
		The surface is darker than Pluto, suggesting a composition largely devoid of fresh ice, but higher than the canonical albedo of 0.04 previously assumed for these bodies.
		After we measured the size, we went back to measure the rotation period and shape of Varuna.
	www.ifa.hawaii.edu /faculty/jewitt/varuna.html (306 words)

	Nature highlights > Kuiper-belt objects: Getting the measure of Varuna
		After Pluto, Varuna is the largest known trans-Neptunian body and by measuring its thermal omissions and reflected optical light simultaneously, both its size and albedo have been be determined.
		Varuna's diameter is about 900 km and its surface is brighter than previously assumed for Kuiper Belt Objects, but darker than Pluto's, suggesting that it is largely devoid of fresh ice.
		TEGLER & W. Optical and infrared observations of a bright object in the outer Solar System reveal it to be surprisingly large — almost as big as Pluto's moon.
	www.nature.com /nature/links/010524/010524-2.html (182 words)

	SPACE.com -- Discovery Brightens Odds of Finding Another Pluto
		Varuna's darkness and size compared to Pluto and its moon Charon.
		Varuna was discovered last November by astronomers using the Spacewatch telescope in Arizona.
		Varuna is therefore brighter than comet nuclei are thought to be, though still darker than Pluto.
	www.space.com /scienceastronomy/solarsystem/pluto_varuna_010523.html (1043 words)

	[7.01] Giant Kuiper Belt Object (20000) Varuna (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The large size, short period and elongated shape suggest that Varuna is rotationally distorted.
		Given that water and denser, refractory materials must be present in cosmic proportions, this low bulk density requires an internal void space (porosity) of 10% to 30%.
		Varuna may be a rotationally distorted rubble pile, with a weak and porous internal constitution due to fracturing by ancient impacts.
	www.aas.org /publications/baas/v34n3/dps2002/9.htm (268 words)

	Varuna
		In Vedic religion, Varuna ("he who covers", referring to the sky) is one of the most important gods in the pantheon, and chief of the asuras.
		Historical analysis of Indo-European linguistics suggests that his name is cognate with that of Uranos, the sky god in Greek mythology: both derive from a root meaning "to cover"
		Varuna became a lunar deity, depicted in art as a white man wearing golden armor and holding a noose or lasso made from a snake.
	www.knowledgefun.com /book/v/va/varuna.html (241 words)

	[3.03] The photometric behavior of 20000 Varuna at very small solar phase angles. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		In the decade since the discovery of 1992 QB1 (Jewitt & Luu 1993), a vast population of asteroids have been detected beyond the orbit of Neptune.
		20000 Varuna (2000 WR106) is one of the largest and brightest KBOs currently known (McMilllan & Larsen 2000).
		We took advantage of a well placed Dec 2002-Jan 2003 opposition collect 6 nights of R-band data to quantify the disk integrated photometric behavior down to a phase angle of 0.036 degrees at the Palomar 200 and Palomar 60-inch telescopes and facility CCD imaging systems.
	www.aas.org /publications/baas/v36n4/dps2004/530.htm (271 words)

	SCUBA sheds new light on the size of Kuiper Belt objects
		Figure 1 shows the displacement of 20000 Varuna during our observations : by observing on two different nights, we minimized the possibility of detecting a background galactic or extragalactic object.
		We note that this values are relatively insensitive to the parameters of the model we had to assume, essentialy the emissivity of Varuna.
		FIGURE 1: R band images of 20000 Varuna taken at the 2.2m telescope of the University of Hawaii at the same time that SCUBA photometry was obtained.
	www.jach.hawaii.edu /JCMT/publications/newsletter/n17/varuna.html (623 words)

	20000 Varuna - Wikipedia
		20000 Varuna (designazione provvisoria 2000 WR) è un oggetto trans-nettuniano della Fascia di Kuiper con un diametro pari a circa 1060 chilometri, stimato tramite una combinazione di misure termiche e ottiche.
		Varuna fu battezzato così in onore di Varuna, divinità induista del mare e delle acque, su suggerimento di Mrinalini Sarabhai.
		Il 30 dicembre 2000 Varuna è stato così rintracciato in alcune immagini fotografiche risalenti a prima della sua scoperta, da Reiner Stoss e Andre Knoefel del DSS Asteroid Precovery Survey nell'archivio fotografico dell'Oschin Schmidt Telescope di 1,2 metri dell'Osservatorio di Palomar.
	it.wikipedia.org /wiki/20000_Varuna (387 words)

	50000 Quaoar - Information at Halfvalue.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Quaoar is estimated to have a diameter of 1260 Â± 190 km, which at the time of discovery in 2002 made it the largest object found in the solar system since the discovery of Pluto.
		Quaoar is believed to be a mixture of rock and ice, like other Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs); however its very low albedo (estimated at 0.1, but still much higher than that of Varuna (0.04)) indicates that the ice has disappeared from Quaoars outer layers.
		20000 Varuna and 28978 Ixion are also moderately red in the spectral class.
	www.halfvalue.com /wiki.jsp?topic=50000_Quaoar (1253 words)

	SSDC » TNO (20000) Varuna
		Seinen Namen verdankt das transneptunische Objekt Varuna, einer vedisch-hinduistischen Gottheit aus der indischen Mythologie.
		Der Zwergplanet (20000) Varuna ist, genau wie der Zwergplanet und Plutino (134340) Pluto, ein äußerst lichtschwaches Objekt in unserem Sonnensystem.
		Für einen kompletten Umlauf benötigt (20000) Varuna über 283 Jahre.
	www.meta-evolutions.de /pages/ssdc-20000-varuna.html (539 words)

	TRANS-NEPTUNIAN OBJECTS
		VARUNA (20000) or 2000 WR106, which is approximately about the size of Ceres or 936 km across, although recent estimates suggest Varuna is likely not round but ellipsoidal in shape.
		Varuna was named after the Indian Hundi creation god, and was discovered as another Kupier Belt object by R.Mcmillian on 20th November 2000.
		An unusual rapid sidereal rotation was discovered during 2002 from the rapid oscillating brightness in the light-curve, and is presently estimated as either 3.2 or its multiple of 6.34 hours.
	homepage.mac.com /andjames/PageTNO000.htm (1919 words)

	Hindu God Points Way To Planet X
		Varuna was detected last November by Arizona-based astronomers in the Spacewatch Project, a scheme aimed at scouring the asteroid belts to look, in part, for rogue rocks that could be a potential threat to Earth.
		In Varuna's case, the asteroid was easy to spot because it shone brightly, thanks to its reflective surface.
		It could vindicate the US astronomer Clyde Tombaugh, who in 1930 found "Planet X," the long-suspected ninth planet of the Solar System, and named it Pluto, but continued his search of the outer solar system in the belief that other planets were still to be discovered, they said.
	www.spacedaily.com /news/kuiper-01d.html (701 words)

	Astroworld: Implications of Varuna
		Varuna is a body that is on the same 'energetic' playing field as Pluto.
		Pluto is larger by a factor of about 2 than any other known trans-Neptunian object (2200 km diameter for Pluto vs. ~1000 km diameter for (20000) Varuna, Ixion, 2002 AW197 and Quaoar).
		The lead in is that natally, 12th House Saturn is square Varuna on the MH-- this has been mitigated by the slow transit of Varuna in Cancer, culminating on 9/11 as it conjuncted Bush's Sun (along with Jupiter).
	www.astroworld.us /archives/000227.html (3227 words)

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