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	Big Dipper
		he Big Dipper is one of the most distinctive asterisms in the sky.
		The familiar and easy to spot bowl and handle of the Big Dipper are composed of bright stars that are visible even from the city.
		The second star from the end of the handle of the Big Dipper, Mizar (Zeta Ursa Majoris), is an interesting multiple star system made up of four stars.
	www.astropix.com /HTML/C_SPRING/BIGDIP.HTM (447 words)

	THE BIG DIPPER
		The Big Dipper is one of the most easily recognizable groups of stars in the sky, being circumpolar (never setting below the horizon) and therefore visible in northern skies year-round.
		Practice tracing from the Big Dipper by finding them on your planisphere--but remember that the shapes of constellations are distorted as you move toward the outer edge of the planisphere, and lines that appear straight in the real sky will not look straight on the flat surface of the planisphere.
		Trace a line from the Pointers of the Big Dipper to Polaris and past Cassiopeia, and you will come to a large, nearly perfect square of four stars (almost directly overhead in autumn) called the Great Square of Pegasus (Pegasus was a flying horse).
	homepage.mac.com /kvmagruder/bcp/aster/general/dipper.htm (1182 words)

	Big Dipper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In North America it is universally known as the Big Dipper because the major stars can be seen to follow the rough outline of a large ladle or dipper.
		Five of the stars of the Big Dipper are at the core of the Ursa Major Moving Group.
		Not only are the stars in the Big Dipper easily found themselves, but they may also be used as guides to yet other stars.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Big_Dipper (871 words)

	Big Dipper - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Big Dipper, common name applied to a conspicuous constellation in the northern celestial hemisphere, near the North Pole.
		Nicknamed Wilt the Stilt and The Big Dipper for his intimidating size, Chamberlain was the object of a recruiting war by area high schools, with...
		A familiar group of stars in the northern hemisphere is called the Big Dipper.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Big_Dipper.html (151 words)

	APOD: 2007 January 8 - The Big Dipper
		Big Dipper stars are actually near each other in space and were likely formed at nearly the same time.
		Connecting two stars in the far part of the Big Dipper will lead one to Polaris, the North Star, which is part of the Little Dipper.
		Big Dipper to slowly change its apparent configuration over the next 100,000 years.
	antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov /apod/ap070108.html (179 words)

	Ursa Major
		The Big Dipper and Polaris play an important part in the story of the Underground Railroad which helped slaves escape their captivity in the southern states of the United States before the Civil War by fleeing north to Canada.
		The folk song "Follow the Drinking Gourd" (another name for the Big Dipper) was a coded song that gave directions on the escape route from Alabama and Mississippi.
		The Big Dipper is a circumpolar constellation, which means it stays above the horizon all night long as it apparently rotates around Polaris due to the Earth's rotation.
	www.astropix.com /HTML/C_SPRING/URSAS.HTM (327 words)

	Big Dipper, a guide to compartive religions and prehistory
		Clearly, the positions of the Big Dipper and the North Star in the night sky would have been of utmost importance to migrating people, especially as they foretold the equinoxes and solstices.
		According to Qimancy (a page on a Feng Shui site) this seasonal alignment of the Big Dipper around Polaris was already being used in the Neolithic to decorate a Chinese tomb (6,000 years old according to other sources), dating the graphic use of this heavenly phenomenon further back than Symbols.com suggests.
		"Myoken is a Bosatsu or Bodhisattva of Big Dipper or the divinized Big Dipper (Sudrsti in Skt).
	www.goddessmystic.com /PathActivities/ComparativeReligions/BigDipper.shtml (1568 words)

	Coaster Kingdom - Big Dipper, Pleasure Beach Blackpool
		The original Big Dipper had an "L" shaped layout, which turned left after the second drop and followed what was then the boundary of the park, roughly along the line where the Big One's lift now stands.
		The new Big Dipper opened in 1936, just one year after the Grand National, and stood as a symbol of the changing of the guard at the Pleasure Beach, and of one of the main reasons for the park's continued popularity, the ability to introduce up-to-the-minute rides, while retaining a proud sense of history.
		While Paige redesigned everything that made the Big Dipper thrilling, architect Joseph Emberton worked on the aesthetic side of the ride, creating a whole new station in the modernist style that he was spreading around the park.
	www.s104638357.websitehome.co.uk /html/bigdipper_main.htm (3312 words)

	Big Dipper - Picture - MSN Encarta
		The Big Dipper is a constellation of seven stars in the northern celestial hemisphere.
		The two stars that make up the outer edge of the bowl point directly to the North Star, a celestial landmark used by navigators in the northern hemisphere for centuries.
		The Big Dipper is also known by the names Ursa Major (the Great Bear), the Plow, Charles’s Wain, and the Wagon.
	encarta.msn.com /media_461578753/Big_Dipper.html (103 words)

	FAQ About Thermaco and Big Dipper Grease Traps
		Unlike traditional grease trap/interceptors, Big Dipper systems use a skimming wheel (which is controlled by a timer) to skim the grease and oils out of the baffled chamber.
		The grease and oils that are removed from the Big Dipper are virtually water free, so rendering companies like it - there is less effort in recycling the grease.
		A: Big Dipper sizing depends on two factors: the number of fixtures in your kitchen and the size of those fixtures in your kitchen.
	www.big-dipper.com /faqs (869 words)

	Giant Dipper at Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk \| Ride Review
		The Giant Dipper's double out and back layout features plenty of up and downs, with several crossovers and one large fan turn at the south end.
		To keep the Dipper safe after more than 75 years, the roller coaster and trains are throughly inspected by the park's mechanics every day.
		Featured prominently as the main attraction on the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, the Giant Dipper is a living reminder of the many long lost seaside roller coasters that used to line the coast of California.
	www.ultimaterollercoaster.com /coasters/reviews/giantdipper (456 words)

	Building the big dipper Teaching Pre K-8 - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: )
		According to Native American legends, the bowl of the Big Dipper is part of a giant bear and the stars that make up the handle are three warriors chasing it.
		In other cultures, the Big Dipper was thought to be a wagon or cart, a plow, a bull's thigh or (to the Chinese) the government.
		In this case, the Big Dipper is the hind quarter of Ursa Major, the Big Bear.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3666/is_200305/ai_n9271009 (910 words)

	The Big Dipper and Autumn Colours
		It was not a very big injury, but the bear howled with rage and fear and ran so fast he went up into the sky.
		The bear is represented by the 4 stars in the bowl of the Big Dipper.
		It is then, according to the legend, that the bear's wound leaks a few drops of blood, and this blood changes the colors of the leaves on the trees.
	starryskies.com /articles/dln/9-97/dipper.colours.html (642 words)

	Official Ticketmaster site. Big Dipper tickets, concerts and tour dates
		A great band that never quite fulfilled their enormous potential, Boston's Big Dipper had impeccable indie credentials and an excellent line in crunchy post-post-punk guitar pop, but their later albums were no match for their early work.
		Big Dipper was formed in 1985 when guitarist Gary Waleik and bassist Steve Michener left the original lineup of Volcano Suns, which they'd formed with drummer and vocalist Peter Prescott after the breakup of Prescott's earlier band Mission of Burma.
		Like their Boston compatriots O-Positive, who had signed with the same label around the same time, Big Dipper's one and only major-label release is a major disappointment; 1990's Slam features far-too-slick production, with intrusive brass sections and too much emphasis on the rhythm section.
	www.ticketmaster.com /artist/734548?brand=none (773 words)

	The Big Dipper - Astronomy for Kids
		Be that as it may, the Big Dipper is probably one of the first objects in the sky that we learn to find and identify.
		The Big Dipper is no exception as you can use two of the stars in its "cup" to find the North Star and you can use the arc of its handle to find the giant red star Arcturus.
		The Big Dipper was also known as the Drinking Gourd and slaves trying to make their way to freedom used it as a guidepost to find their way North and escape the bonds of slavery.
	www.dustbunny.com /afk/constellations/bigdipper (701 words)

	People's Daily Online -- Neolithic stone carving of Big Dipper discovered in northwest China
		A neolithic stone carving of the Big Dipper star formation has been found on Baimiaozi Mountain near Chifeng City in northwest China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, according to experts.
		The representation of the Big Dipper is on the north face of the stone.
		Astronomers' conjectures about the shape of the Big Dipper some ten thousand years ago also match the carving.
	english.people.com.cn /200608/15/eng20060815_293315.html (325 words)

	APOD: 2005 February 18 - Big Dipper Castle
		Explanation: The stars of the big dipper, a well known asterism in the constellation Ursa Major, are easy to recognize in this dramatic skyscape.
		In fact, northern hemisphere skygazers often follow along the line indicated by the two stars at the far right.
		Big Dipper Castle might be an appropriate name in this stunning view, but its traditional name is
	antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov /apod/ap050218.html (187 words)

	SPACE.com -- Big Dipper Stars in Summer Sky
		The bear's paws known to early Arabs as the "Leaps of the Gazelle" are marked by an almost equally spaced set of three pairs of stars.The Dipper's bowl is the torso.
		As an example, tonight, when you see the Big Dipper high in the sky be sure to look for an incredible illusion.
		Second-magnitude Mizar is the middle star in the Dipper's handle (or the Bear's tail).Mizar has a fainter companion about one-fourth as bright known as Alcor.
	www.space.com /spacewatch/050610_big_dipper.html (493 words)

	the big dipper
		The Big Dipper was used by escaping slaves to point the way northwards to freedom.
		The Big Dipper can be seen in the Northern Hemishpere and is used to locate the North Star, or Polaris.
		The Big Dipper has been used by sailors and travelers, for centuries, to point the way north.
	www.funsocialstudies.learninghaven.com /articles/bigdipper.htm (249 words)

	Big Dipper
		he Big Dipper is one of the most distinctive asterisms in the sky.
		The familiar and easy to spot bowl and handle of the Big Dipper are composed of bright stars that are visible even from the city.
		The second star from the end of the handle of the Big Dipper, Mizar (Zeta Ursa Majoris), is an interesting multiple star system made up of four stars.
	astropix.com /HTML/C_SPRING/BIGDIP.HTM (447 words)

	Big Dipper stars in summer sky - Space.com - MSNBC.com
		The Big Dipper is not a constellation itself, but an asterism, which is part of the larger constellation of Ursa Major, the Great Bear.
		Most people regard the Big Dipper as the leading star group in our hemisphere of the sky, and most astronomy books often use it as a jumping-off place for locating other stars and constellations; useful signboards to show the way to other features of the evening skies.
		It is by means of the Big Dipper that we can locate Polaris, the North Star: follow the direction of the Pointers, the two stars that form the front of the Dipper's bowl.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/8175319 (495 words)

	Finding the Pole Star
		Imagine a line connecting the two stars at the front of the "dipper", continue it on the side where the dipper is "open" to a distance 5 times that between the two stars (the flag shortens this a bit!), and you will arrive at (or very close to) the pole star.
		The "dipper" itself faces the tail of the Big Dipper, so that the two "tails" (or "handles") point in opposite directions.
		The two front stars of the "little dipper" (quite smaller and more square than the big one) are fairly bright, but other stars are rather dim and require good eyes and a dark sky.
	www-spof.gsfc.nasa.gov /stargaze/Spolaris.htm (707 words)

	Finger Gestures and Pacing the Big Dipper
		Accompanied by melodious Daoist music, the ritual master visualizes the Nine Heavens, and Paces the Big Dipper according to the positions of the stars and the 28 constellations as well as the diagram of the Nine Palaces and the Eight Trigrams.
		The Dipper of the Twenty-Eight Constellations and the Five Big Dippers of the Sun and the Moon represent certain areas of heaven, fairyland, or paradise.
		Because the Big Dipper often sits on a lotus, and because the divine animal that draws her carriage is named Horned Pig
	www.eng.taoism.org.hk /religious-activities&rituals/talismans-registers&magic-skills/pg4-3-3.asp (3492 words)

	The Big Dipper
		The Big Dipper is not officially recognized as a constellation; instead, it is part of the constellation Ursa Major which in Latin means The Greater Bear.
		In western Africa, The Big Dipper is referred to as The Drinking Gourd, a large spoon shaped utensil carved from the shell of a dried gourd fruit.
		Indeed, the name “Big Dipper” seems to fit the asterism better than “Plow” when you consider that the blade of the plow would be unrealistically large and out of proportion when compared to the size of the handle.
	www.singularsci.com /BigDipper1.htm (603 words)

	What's Up! Fact & Fantasy about the Big Dipper
		The dipper is also a cosmic timepiece; the handle of the dipper makes a complete 360-degree circuit during the course of a year.
		Some Native American legends told that the bowl of the Big Dipper was a giant bear and the stars of the handle was three warriors chasing it.
		The Big Dipper was also a very important part of the Underground Railroad which helped slaves escape from the South before the Civil War.
	www.mindspring.com /~stardancer/whatsup7.htm (916 words)

	What the Big Dipper can tell You
		No, the dipper is not a true constellation, rather it is an asterism, a familiar group of stars located within a constellation.
		The dipper and the stars around it are called circumpolar stars, meaning that they circle the pole.
		Telling time by the Big Dipper's position is based on the idea that all stars rotate around the north pole.
	www.starryskies.com /articles/dln/4-97/dipper.time.html (658 words)

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