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  Centaur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dwelling in the mountains of Thessaly, the centaurs were the offspring of Ixion and Nephele, the rain-cloud.
Alternatively, the centaurs were the offspring of Kentauros (the son of Ixion and Nephele) and some Magnesian mares or of Apollo and Hebe.
The Centaurs are best known for their fight with the Lapithae, caused by their attempt to carry off Hippodamia (a "horse" woman herself) on the day of her marriage to Peirithous, king of the Lapithae, himself the son of Ixion.
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 Centaur (planetoid) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The first centaur to be discovered, 2060 Chiron was found to display a coma upon its approach to perihelion, and is now officially classified as both a comet (95/P Chiron) and an asteroid, although it is far larger than a typical comet and there is some lingering controversy.
Dynamical studies of their orbits indicate that centaurs are probably an intermediate orbital state of objects transitioning from the Kuiper Belt to the Jupiter Family of short period comets.
Centaurs will thus ultimately collide with the Sun or a planet or else they may be ejected into interstellar space after a close approach to one of the planets, particularly Jupiter.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Centaur_(planetoid)   (374 words)

  
 Bambooweb: Centaur
Dwelling in the mountains of Thessaly and Arcadia, in the north of Greece, the centaurs were the offspring of Ixion and Nephele, the rain-cloud.
Centaurs are best known for their fight with the Lapithae, caused by their attempt to carry off Hippodamia (a "horse"woman herself) on the day of her marriage to Peirithous, king of the Lapithae, himself the son of Ixion (illustration, left).
Not comprehending the etymology of the "-taur" element of "Centaur", a general 'taur' form in modern science fiction and fantasy literature is a six-limbed being, using four for locomotion and two for manipulation.
www.bambooweb.com /articles/C/e/Centaur.html   (730 words)

  
 Kids.net.au - Encyclopedia Centaur -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Dwelling in the mountains of Thessaly and Arcadia, the centaurs were the offspring of Ixion and Nephele (the rain-cloud).
They are best known for their fight with the Lapithae[?], caused by their attempt to carry off Deidameia[?] on the day of her marriage to Peirithous, king of the Lapithae, himself the son of Ixion.
It is suggested as the origin of the legend, that the Greeks in early times, to whom riding was unfamiliar, regarded the horsemen of the northern hordes as one and the same with their horses; hence the idea of the Centaur as half-man, half-animal.
www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/ce/Centaur   (512 words)

  
 Centaur - Unipedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Many centaur legends state that they are very fickle creatures, and often look to the sky to determine the fates.
Centaurs have appeared many times and in many places in pieces of modern fiction.
Centaurs and Amazons : Women and the Pre-History of the Great Chain of Being (Women and Culture Series)
www.unipedia.info /Centaur.html   (870 words)

  
 Centaur planetary bodies
But the Centaur bodies caught the eye of astrologers and rapidly became the cutting edge of what was then the latest astrological thinking.
The Centaur, Nessus, the third Centaur planetoid discovered, was more typical of the Centaurs and was best known for lying and betrayal.
Yet the naming of the Centaur planetoids got a little more complicated at the recent turn of the millennium when one of them was named Chariklo, who was not a Centaur at all but was the woman who was Chiron's wife.
www.karmastrology.com /centaur.shtml   (920 words)

  
 Talk: Solar system - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Meanwhile, the asteroid entry subsumes comets, Centaurs and TNOs as types of asteroids.
There seems to be some disagreement (whether among astronomers or just in common English usage) as to whether asteroid subsumes all planetoids or just the rocky ones or just the ones in the asteroid belt.
One possibility is to drop the comets, Centaur,s and TNOs from the asteroid article, which makes it simpler and clearer.
talk.open-encyclopedia.com /Solar_system   (3442 words)

  
 centaur information site   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
These creatures are typically depicted as having large the normal body structure of the regular animal, but also have a upper body portion attached at the front that is humanoid in basic structure outside the head.
This centaur variant index site has been developed to help wayward users find the information they are looking for, no matter how they are mistakenly spelled or mistyped.
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 Centaur (planetoid) - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Centaur (planetoid)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Centaur (planetoid) - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Centaur (planetoid).
Here you will find more informations about Centaur (planetoid).
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On the way to capture the Erymanthian Boar, Heracles visited Pholus, a kind centaur and old friend.
Heracles ate with him and asked for wine; Pholus had only one jar of wine, a gift from Dionysus to all the centaurs on Mt Erymanthus.
Heracles convinced him to open it, and the smell attracted the other centaurs, who attacked, angry that their wine had been opened.
en-cyclopedia.com /wiki/Pholus   (87 words)

  
 Centaur Details, Meaning Centaur Article and Explanation Guide
Centaur Details, Meaning Centaur Article and Explanation Guide
, Abduction of Deianira, 1620-21]] In Greek mythology, the centaurs are a race part human and part horse, with a horse's body and a human head and torso (illustration, right).
Like the Titanomachy, the defeat of the Titanss by the Olympian gods headed by Zeus, the contests with the Centaurs typify the struggle between civilization and barbarism.
www.e-paranoids.com /c/ce/centaur.html   (774 words)

  
 Writer's Guide to the PR Universe - Planets   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The planetoid was near both the Earth and moon.
In the desert surface of the planetoid was the space dumpster which contained Goldar, Finster, Squatt, Baboo, and Rita.
Kinwon wondered why a search party would come to Centaur B, saying the planet was nothing more than an ill-tempered rock.
www.rovang.org /wg/planets.htm   (3369 words)

  
 Centaur - Wikpedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Centaurs are best known for their fight with the Lapithae, caused by their attempt to carry off Hippodamia (a "horse"woman herself) on the day of her marriage to Peirithous, king of the Lapithae, himself the son of Ixion.
John W. Philpus, "A Catalogue of Centaurs on Greek and Related Painted Pottery", 2000 (http://members.aol.com/JWFvases/page2/index.htm)da:Kentaur
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 Centaur (planetoid)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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Centaurs are not in stable orbits and will eventually be removed by the giant planets.
The first Centaur, 2060 Chiron was found to display a coma upon its approach to perihelion, and is now officially classified as both a comet (95/P Chiron) and an asteroid, although it is far larger than a typical comet and there is some lingering controversy.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/centaur__planetoid_   (188 words)

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