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  Aldebaran - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Aldebaran, (α Tau / α Tauri / Alpha Tauri), is the brightest star in the constellation Taurus and one of the brightest stars in the nighttime sky.
In the religion of Stregheria, Aldebaran is a fallen angel and quarter guardian of the eastern gate.
Aldebaran is Brazilian, is the tallest and one of the strongest, wisest warriors in the sanctuary.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aldebaran   (1087 words)

  
 Aldebaran   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Aldebaran is by far the brightest, and therefore the Alpha, star of the constellation Taurus.
Aldebaran, 60 light years away, is positioned in front of the sprawling Hyades star cluster (in mythology, half-sisters to the Pleiades) that make the face of Taurus the Bull, but is not a part of it, the cluster over twice as far away.
Yet Aldebaran may have its own "solar system." Recent, though still-unconfirmed, observations show that the star may be slightly shifting back and forth in response to a small body with a mass at least 11 times that of Jupiter and a two-year orbital period.
www.astro.uiuc.edu /~kaler/sow/aldebaran.html   (401 words)

  
 * Aldebaran - (Astronomy): Definition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Aldebaran is by far the brightest, and therefore the Alpha, star of the constellation.
Aldebaran is a relatively bright star with a magnitude of 1.
Aldebaran is the brightest star in the constellation Taurus (it is one of the bull's eyes) and is the 13th brightest star in the sky.
en.mimi.hu /astronomy/aldebaran.html   (1096 words)

  
 Aldebaran   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Aldebaran stood out of Pearl Harbor on the 21st and arrived in Ulithi on 2 May. There, she reported for duty with Task Unit (TU) 50.8.5, part of the underway replenishment group.
Aldebaran continued her active service to Unites States naval forces in the Mediterranean Sea and in the West Indies until mid-1968.
Aldebaran's name was struck from the Navy list on 1 June 1973, and she was sold on 14 November 1974 to Andy International, Brownsville, Tex., for scrapping.
www.history.navy.mil /danfs/a5/aldebaran.htm   (1502 words)

  
 Aldebaran   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
It is a variable star and its visual magnitude is +0.85 at maximum, therefore it is one of the brightest stars in the northern hemisphere.
Aldebaran is one of the four Royal Stars of the ancient Persians.
Aldebaran is the star near the left eye of the bull.
www.bo.astro.it /copernic/alde-eng.html   (149 words)

  
 Aldebaran - Alpha Tauri
Hebrews called Aldebaran God's Eye and Aleph, Akkadian Gis-da, Furrow of Heaven, Greek Omma Boos, Latin Oculus Tauri, early English the Bull's Eye; and Hindus Rohini the Red Deer - the name of the river in Nepal where the Buddha was born at the time of the May full moon, around 563 BCE.
Aldebaran is also known as Buddha's Star, the Star of Illumination, God's Eye, and the Eye of the Bull.
There is a symbolic relation between Aldebaran, the Eye in the head of the Bull, the third eye, or the light in the head, and the diamond.
www.crystalinks.com /aldebaran.html   (1390 words)

  
 Read about Aldebaran at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Aldebaran and learn about Aldebaran here!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Aldebaran, the bull's-eye (α Tau / alpha Tauri), is the brightest star in the constellation Taurus and one of the brightest stars in the nighttime sky.
In the religion of Stregheria, Aldebaran is a fallen angel and
Aldebaran is one of the easier stars to find in the night sky, partly due to its brightness and partly due to its spatial relation to one of the more noticeable asterisms in the sky.
encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Aldebaran   (388 words)

  
 Aldebaran: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Aldebaran
The star Aldebaran (α Tauri) is the brightest star in the constellation Taurus.
Aldebaran itself is apparently the brightest member of the more scattered Hyades cluster, which is the closest star cluster to Earth.
Aldebaran is a K5 III star, which means it is orangish, large, and has moved off of the main sequence by using all its hydrogen fuel.
www.encyclopedian.com /al/Aldebaran.html   (354 words)

  
 Aldebaran / Alpha Tauri 2
Its proper name, Aldebaran, is derived from the Arabic "Al Dabaran" for the Follower because the star appears to track the night time movement of the Pleiades ("Seven Sisters") star cluster.
Aldebaran A is estimated to have between 47 to 100 percent as enriched than Sol with elements heavier than hydrogen ("metallicity") based on its abundance of iron (Cayrel de Strobel et al, 1991, page 282).
Aldebaran is viewed by some as the glowing eye of the Bull, with white star Beta Tauri (Elnath) as its pushing horn and the Hyades star cluster forming its head.
www.solstation.com /stars2/aldebaran.htm   (1660 words)

  
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Aldebaran is also known as Alpha Tauri as the brightest star in the constellation Taurus and Oculus Tauri the Bull's Eye.
Aldebaran is a first magnitude star and one of the brightest in the Heavens.
Aldebaran is a red giant and is described as having a pale rose color.
www.renaissanceastrology.com /aldebarantalisman.html   (571 words)

  
 About USS ALDEBARAN
Following her maiden mission for the Navy, Aldebaran remained at San Francisco until 29 March when she put to sea with a cargo bound for Hawaii, The ship made a seven-day layover at Pearl Harbor between 5 and 12 April and returned to San Francisco on the 20th.
Aldebaran discharged cargo at Pearl Harbor during the last six of days of November and, after an overnight stop at Maui, headed back to the west coast on 1 December.
Aldebaran's name was struck from the Navy list on I June 1973, and she was sold on 14 November 1974 to Andy International, Brownsville, Tex., for scrapping.
home.epix.net /~nooyawka/AF10.htm   (1499 words)

  
 Aldebaran   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Aldebaran has now evolved out of the main sequence, and has fully shifted from the fusion of hydrogen to helium at its core to the fusion to helium to carbon and oxygen, with trace activity of other nuclear processes.
Aldebaran is most famous for being the brightest star in the constellation Taurus.
Aldebaran also has a mass orbiting it but it is still to be found weather it is a planet or a brown dwarf.
www.eso.org /outreach/eduoff/edu-prog/catchastar/CAS2002/cas-projects/uk_aldebaran_1   (895 words)

  
 Aldebaran Associates International
Aldebaran Associates provides state-of-the-art executive search, leadership development, coaching, staff assessment and training services with a focus on the international and diversity efforts of small to mid-size public and private companies.
Aldebaran Associates is named after the brightest star of the Taurus constellation.
Aldebaran Associates is a new kind of company with extensive recruitment experience and an innovative state-of-the-art executive alignment strategy.
www.aldebaranassociates.com   (297 words)

  
 HIGHLIGHTS ~ ALDEBARAN ~ PRINT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Aldebaran, the brightest star in the constellation Taurus the Bull, rises in the fall at sunset, and is the thirteenth brightest star in the sky.
The Hindus referred to Aldebaran and Taurus as Rohini (the Red Deer), the name of the river in Nepal where the Buddha was born at the time of the May full moon, around 563 BCE.
Aldebaran, the star of illumination, is directly across the zodiac from Antares, the star of anger, pride and revenge.
www.souledout.org /cosmology/highlights/aldebaranprint.html   (1654 words)

  
 Aldebaran (AF-10)
Her most frequent ports of call were Eniwetok in the Marshalls and Ulithi in the Carolines; however, she made one visit each to Kwajalein i n the Marshalls, Manus in the Admiralty Islands, and Guam in the Marianas.
Aldebaran stood out of Pearl Harbor on the 21st and arrived in Ulithi on 2 May. There, she reported for duty with Task Unit (TU) 50.8.5, part of the un derway replenishment group.
Four years later, in the fall of 1962, President John F. Kennedy surrounded the island of Cuba with a cord on of warships to stop the flow of Soviet missiles to that island and to force the removal of those already in place.
www.hazegray.org /danfs/auxil/af10.htm   (1431 words)

  
 Aldebaran --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
The alpha, or brightest, star in the constellation Taurus, Aldebaran is visible from both the Northern and Southern hemispheres from late fall through late spring and is highest in the sky at a 10:00
Aldebaran is one of the 15 brightest stars, with an apparent visual magnitude of 0.86.
The alpha, or brightest, star in the constellation Taurus, Aldebaran is visible from both the Northern and Southern hemispheres from late fall through late spring and is highest in the sky at a 10:00 PM observation on January 15.
www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9309752   (618 words)

  
 ALDEBARAN manual page
aldebaran also accepts other LTSs formats (such as.fc2 or.seq files): in such case, the bcg_io tool is used to perform silently the translation of these other formats into a format readable by aldebaran.
However, in version 6.6 of aldebaran, the syntax of.exp files is restricted to the language of the following context-free grammar.
Note: in version 7.* of aldebaran, diagnostics are produced in the form of directed acyclic subgraphs containing all sequences which, executed simultaneously in the two LTSs, lead to non-equivalent states (see the bisimulator manual page for details).
www.inrialpes.fr /vasy/cadp/man/aldebaran.html   (2258 words)

  
 ESPN.com - Horse Racing - Aldebaran back on top
Sent off as the odds-on favorite, Aldebaran unleashed his strong closing kick to rally from last to first, then had plenty left to stave off a late challenge from Peeping Tom to win the Grade 2, seven-furlong race on a hot, humid afternoon.
Aldebaran was a well-beaten third in that 1 1/8-mile race, so it was back to a sprint, and Belmont Park, for his fifth start in a little more than 2 1/2 months - an uncharacteristically aggressive campaign for a Frankel trainee.
Aldebaran, as is his custom, dropped back to last in the seven-horse field while the longshot Voodoo carved out aggressive fractions of 22.44 seconds for the opening quarter-mile and 44.83 for the half.
espn.go.com /horse/news/2003/0703/1576247.html   (475 words)

  
 Aldebaran
Aldebaran (Taurus Inner Sector, 68 LY Sol) is an giant, old, orange star (Spectral Type K5+III) with a surface temperature of less than 4,000 Kelvin.
Aldebaran means "the Follower" in Arabic since (viewed from Old Earth) it seems to follow the stars in the Pleiades.
The rise of the Conver Ambi was bad news for ADSP and the local corporate polity was undermined during the age of establishment by relativistic Conver Ambi colonisers (who originally posed as nomad clone-clade workers).
www.orionsarm.com /worlds/Aldebaran.html   (547 words)

  
 Apolyton Civilization Forums > Alpha Centauri > AC-Creation | Civ4-Alpha Centauri > Aldebaran 2: Smax   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Aldebaran is a total rewrite of Smax and Smac, insofar as that has been possible through editing the text and image files.
Check out the Aldebaran strategy guide thread for some idea of all the changes.There are scenarios for Aldebaran, which will be re-released in a week or two, after I do some editing and take a little vacation from making batch files.
Aldebaran One was a mad scramble to keep beta-testers and graphics people and story-tellers all churning out results before the end of the summer of 2001 (I think it was that summer).
apolyton.net /forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=117553   (6000 words)

  
 Aldebaran Technologies, LLC: Company Info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Aldebaran (pronounced al-DEB-uh-run) is the name of a star.
Aldebaran Technologies was formed in 1995, and incorporated in 1997.
And even with all the services it offers, Aldebaran Technologies' first priority is quality.
www.aldebaran.net /CompanyInfo.html   (88 words)

  
 .::Running blind // Aldebaran, Astronomia Senshi of Pursuit::.
She isn't rebellious; Sailor Aldebaran's very existence is the chase, and she goes about it with the single mindedness that dogs use while chasing cars.
An orange giant and member of the Hyades star cluster, Aldebaran means, 'the follower', and it was given that designation because of how closely it follows the Pleiades in the autumn/winter sky.
Aldebaran is (c) Sky and was created for Sailor Myth which is (c) Emiko.
gekizetsu.net /harem/aldebaran.html   (2602 words)

  
 Darby Dan Farm - Aldebaran | News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Darby Dan stallion ALDEBARAN's stellar record of five graded stakes wins in 2003 was honored as the 6-year-old son of Mr.
ALDEBARAN is slated to enter stud at Darby Dan Farm for the 2004 breeding season.
ALDEBARAN has taken up residence in the same stall that was once home to Darby Dan's homebred star Roberto, in addition to Honor Grades, Sailor, and Sword Dancer.
www.darbydan.com /aldebaran/news.cfm   (941 words)

  
 Aldebaran Returns to Favorite Distance and Wins Tom Fool - bloodhorse.com
As the field moved into the stretch, Aldebaran made his way through traffic to assume the lead and draw off to stop the timer in 1:22 2/5.
The victory was the seventh in 23 lifetime starts for Aldebaran, a 5-year-old son of Mr.
The Tom Fool triumph also solidified Aldebaran's status as the country's top sprinter, having finished first or second in all eight of his starts at seven-eighths of a mile, Aldebaran ran third in the 1 1/8-mile Stephen Foster Handicap (gr.
www.bloodhorse.com /viewstory.asp?id=16788   (412 words)

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