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	Dione (moon) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dione is composed primarily of water ice, but as the third densest of Saturn's moons (aside from Enceladus and Titan, whose density is increased by gravitational compression) it must have a considerable fraction of denser material like silicate rock in its interior.
		One hypothesis was that shortly after its formation Dione was geologically active, and some process such as ice volcanism resurfaced much of its surface, with the streaks forming from eruptions along cracks in Dione's surface that fell back to the surface as snow or ash.
		This suggests that during the period of heavy bombardment, Dione was tidally locked to Saturn in the opposite orientation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dione_(moon) (730 words)

	Dione (mythology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dione in Greek mythology is a vague goddess presence who has her most concrete form in Book V of Homer's Iliad as the mother of Aphrodite: Aphrodite journeys to Dione's side after she has been wounded in battle while protecting her favorite son Aeneas.
		Although Dione is not a Titan in Hesiod, but appears instead in his Theogony among the long list of Oceanids, Apollodorus includes her among the Titans (1.1.3 and 1.3.1).
		The archaic king Tantalus in Lydia had Dione as a consort: the Roman mythographer, Hyginus, (Fabulae 82, 83) says that Dione is a daughter of Atlas and the mother, by Tantalus, of Pelops, Niobe and Broteas.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dione_(mythology) (281 words)

	Dione - LoveToKnow 1911
		DIONE, in the earliest Greek mythology, the wife of Zeus.
		It is probable that in very early times the cult of Dione existed in Athens, where she had an altar before the Erechtheum.
		Speaking generally, Dione may be regarded as the female embodiment of the attributes of Zeus, to whose name her own is related as Juno (= Jovino) to Jupiter.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Dione (253 words)

	Dione
		In Greek mythology Dione was the mother of Aphrodite (Venus) by Zeus (Jupiter).
		Dione is the densest of Saturn's moons (aside from Titan, whose density is increased by gravitational compression).
		Helene is in Dione's leading Lagrange point and hence was sometimes referred to as "Dione B".
	www.nineplanets.org /dione.html (410 words)

	Saturn's Moon Dione
		This image of Dione is a mosaic of several of the highest resolution images taken by the Voyager spacecraft.
		This image is a color composite of Dione taken by Voyager 1 on November 12, 1980.
		This image of Dione was taken by Voyager 1 on November 12, 1980.
	www.solarviews.com /eng/dione.htm (1965 words)

	Dione (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		DIONE was one of the early birds in the Goddess stakes.
		The images were obtained with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera at a distance of approximately 39,000 kilometers (24,200 miles) from Dione and at a Sun-Dione-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 22 degrees.
		Dione's icy surface is scarred by craters and sliced up by multiple generations of geologically-young bright fractures.
	home.xtra.co.nz /hosts/Wingmakers/Dione.html (981 words)

	Dione
		Dione's relatively high density suggests that it has a rocky core, making up about one third of its total mass, surrounded by water ice.
		Contrary to what might be expected of a satellite in gravitational lock, it is the trailing hemisphere of Dione on which the majority of intense cratering exists.
		The likelihood is that Dione has been tidally locked in its current state for several billion years judging by the average albedo of the leading and trailing hemispheres.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/D/Dione.html (417 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia â“ Free Online Encyclopedia for Reference, Research, Facts
		DIONE [Dione], in astronomy, one of the named moons, or natural satellites, of Saturn.
		Also known as Saturn IV (or S4), Dione is 695 mi (1,120 km) in diameter, orbits Saturn at a mean distance of 234,500 mi (377,400 km), and has an orbital period of 2.737 earth days—the rotational period is unknown but is assumed to be the same as the orbital period.
		Dione also forms a satellite pair with Enceladus ; that is, the two moons interact gravitationally.
	www.encyclopedia.com /printable.aspx?id=1E1:DioneAst (182 words)

	AllRefer.com - Dione, in astronomy (Astronomy, General) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Also known as Saturn IV (or S4), Dione is 695 mi (1,120 km) in diameter, orbits Saturn at a mean distance of 234,500 mi (377,400 km), and has an orbital period of 2.737 earth days : the rotational period is unknown but is assumed to be the same as the orbital period.
		Aside from Titan, Dione is the densest of Saturn's satellites; it is believed to be composed primarily of water ice with a considerable fraction of denser material, such as silicate rock.
		Dione also forms a satellite pair with Enceladus; that is, the two moons interact gravitationally.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/D/DioneAst.html (297 words)

	Astronomy News
		The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on April 25, 2005, at a distance of approximately 2.8 million kilometres from Dione and at a Sun-Dione-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 60 degrees.
		Dione's southern polar region contains fractures whose softened appearance suggests that they have different ages than the bright braided fractures seen in the image to the north.
		The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Aug. 1, 2005, at a distance of approximately 269,000 kilometres from Dione and at a Sun-Dione-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 41 degrees.
	www.activeboard.com /forum.spark?forumID=58381&subForumID=163878&action=viewTopic&commentID=3124517 (768 words)

	Cassini-Huygens: Moons
		Dione is probably composed of a rocky core making up one-third of the moon's mass, and the rest is composed of water-ice.
		Dione's icy surface includes heavily cratered terrain, with moderately and lightly cratered plains, as well as some severely cracked areas, with very bright material on the walls of the fractures.
		This anomaly suggests that during the period of heavy meteors bombardment, Dione was tidally locked to Saturn in the opposite orientation.
	saturn.jpl.nasa.gov /science/moons/moonDetails.cfm?pageID=4 (307 words)

	Dione
		Dione is a satellite of the planet Saturn.
		Compared with the satellites of other planets of the solar system, Dione is a large Moon with a diameter of 1120 km and a mass of 1.05E+21 kg kg.
		Dione is an average distance of 377400 km from Saturn and completes its revolution of Saturn in 2.74 days.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /moons/dione.htm (64 words)

	MedlinePlus Drug Information: Anticonvulsants, Dione (Systemic) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Dione anticonvulsants are used to control certain types of seizures in the treatment of epilepsy.
		Dione anticonvulsants may also cause a bleeding problem in the mother during delivery and in the newborn.
		Dione anticonvulsants may cause your eyes to become more sensitive to bright light than they are normally, making it difficult for you to see well.
	www.nlm.nih.gov /medlineplus/druginfo/uspdi/202051.html (1622 words)

	Sea and Sky's Tour of the Solar System: Dione
		Dione is the densest of Saturn's moons with the exception of Titan.
		Dione is believed to have a rocky core with less ice coverage than Rhea.
		Dione is locked in a synchronous orbit similar to that of Rhea.
	www.seasky.org /solarsystem/sky3g5.html (377 words)

	ESA Science & Technology: Dione Flyby - October 2005
		Dione is uniquely identified by its curious wispy terrain and was discovered in 1684 by Jean-Domnique Cassini.
		The closest approach to Dione occurs on Tuesday, 11 October at 17:52 UTC at an altitude of 500 km above the surface and at a speed of 9 kilometres per second.
		Dione is spherical in shape and has a diameter of 1120 km, making it the third-largest icy satellite (after Iapetus and Rhea).
	sci.esa.int /science-e/www/object/index.cfm?fobjectid=38389 (1099 words)

	BBC - Science & Nature - Space - Dione
		Dione is a moon orbiting the planet Saturn, about a third as large as Earth's Moon.
		Dione was a giantess and the mother of Aphrodite.
		Dione is not visible from the Earth with the naked eye, but can be seen with a telescope.
	www.bbc.co.uk /science/space/solarsystem/saturn/dione.shtml (305 words)

	Dione
		A cratering model was proposed for a tidally locked satellite with the highest cratering rates on the leading hemisphere and the lowest on the trailing hemisphere.
		Because Dione is relatively small moon and an impact causing a 35 kilometer crater could have spun the satellite around.
		This theory is also supported by observations of the brightess of Dione, where the average surface albedo decreases from the leading to the trailing hemispheres (The leading hemisphere is brighter).
	www.zebu.uoregon.edu /~js/ast121/lectures/dione.html (345 words)

	Discovery Channel :: News :: Saturn Moon Dione in Cassini's Sights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Discovered during a Voyager flyby three decades ago, the fissures were so prevalent that the moon looked misty, leading scientists to speculate that ice volcanoes had tapped fresh material from deep inside the moon and sprayed it across the face.
		That theory ended when the Cassini spacecraft turned its cameras and sensors on Dione last October and discovered that the "mist" actually was a fine and varied network of cracks and fissures.
		If that were the case, Dione would be much farther along than Enceledus, similar to how Mars may be like an older Earth, stripped of its surface water and most of its atmosphere.
	dsc.discovery.com /news/briefs/20051010/dione.html (470 words)

	Dione size comparisons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Dione is 1.07 times the diameter of Tethys (a satellite of Saturn).
		Dione is 2.23 times the diameter of Enceladus (a satellite of Saturn).
		Dione is 34.4 times the diameter of Helene (a satellite of Saturn).
	ic-www.arc.nasa.gov /projects/bayes-group/Atlas/size/Dione (141 words)

	Dione (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Dione has a diameter of 1120 km and makes 1 trip around Saturn in 2 days 18 hours.
		Dione has a density of 1.44 g/cm3, which is higher than the other moons of Saturn except for Titan.
		Dione is covered with a variety of terrain.
	starryskies.com /solar_system/saturn/dione.html (125 words)

	CD Baby: DIONE TAYLOR: Open Your Eyes
		Dione Taylor's warm vocal tone and emotional intensity not only capture the mood of each song, but also assure the audience they are listening to a truly a unique voice in jazz.
		Merely two weeks after releasing her CD, Dione Taylor was invited by Dr. Billy Taylor (Jazz Piano Legend, National Endowment of the Arts, Artistic Director of Jazz at The Kennedy Center) to perform with him and his trio for a celebration commemorating June as Black Music Month in the United States.
		Most recently, Dione Taylor's CD "Open Your Eyes" was voted as one of the Top Jazz Albums of 2004 by Jazz Fm 91.1 and received yet another nomination for Vocalist of the Year from the National Jazz Awards.
	cdbaby.com /cd/dionetaylor (418 words)

	Universe Today - Cassini's Closeup View of Dione
		Cassini found evidence that Dione's surface is covered by fractures, which run in roughly parallel lines; these are interrupted by larger bright features.
		"Dione seems to be an older sibling of Enceladus," said Dr. Bonnie Buratti, scientist on the Cassini visual and infrared mapping spectrometer team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. "We think that the cracked features of Dione may be the older version of the tiger stripes on Enceladus.
		As on other Saturnian moons, rockslides on Dione may reveal cleaner ice, while the darker materials accumulate in areas of lower topography, such as crater floors and the bases of scarps.
	www.universetoday.com /am/publish/cassini_closeup_view_dione.html?18102005 (696 words)

	Dione « Space Photos
		Dione is 1,126 kilometers (700 miles) across and Rhea is 1,528 kilometers (949 miles) across.
		The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on April 17, 2006 at a distance of approximately 3.4 million kilometers (2.1 million miles) from Dione and at a Sun-Dione-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 120 degrees.
		Dione is 1,118 kilometers across and lies about 300,000 kilometers from the ring’s edge.
	jtintle.wordpress.com /tag/dione (558 words)

	Saturn's Moon Dione - Explore the Cosmos \| The Planetary Society
		A close Cassini flyby proved that the wisps were the bright walls of fractures on Dione's surface.
		Dione's globe is dominated by a star-like pattern of bright "wispy terrain" -- or so it appeared from the Voyagers' distant views.
		The map is 2,048 pixels wide, and Dione's diameter is 1,118 kilometers, so the map resolution is 1.7 kilometers per pixel at the equator.
	www.planetary.org /explore/topics/saturn/dione.html (292 words)

	Universe Today - Good Look at Dione
		Dione is much darker on its western side in this image, and you can see the bright wispy fresh canyons right at the edge.
		Cassini prepared for its rendezvous with Dione on Oct. 11, 2005, capturing the brilliant, cratered iceball in front of its shadow-draped planet.
		The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini wide-angle camera at a distance of approximately 24,500 kilometers (15,200 miles) from Dione and at a Sun-Dione-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 22 degrees.
	www.universetoday.com /am/publish/dione_rendezvouz.html?23112005 (280 words)

	Catalog Page for PIA07581
		Dione's southern polar region (shown here) contains fractures whose softened appearance suggests that they have different ages than the bright braided fractures seen in the image to the north.
		This view of Dione (1,118 kilometers, or 695 miles across) captures high southern latitudes on the moon's trailing hemisphere.
		The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Aug. 1, 2005, at a distance of approximately 269,000 kilometers (167,000 miles) from Dione and at a Sun-Dione-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 41 degrees.
	photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov /catalog/PIA07581 (226 words)

	Coast Guard Cutter Dione
		The Dione made a sweep search for the submarine which appeared to be on the starboard side of the convoy.
		The Dione made another underwater contact on 25 June 1942, and expended five depth charges resulting in quantities of oil rising to the surface.
		Dione towed the disabled cutter Iris to New Orleans from 2-5 January 1957.
	www.uscg.mil /hq/g-cp/history/WEBCUTTERS/Dione_1934.html (508 words)

	Greek Mythology: DIONE Titan Goddess of Prophecy, Oracle Dodona
		DIONE was the Titan goddess of the oracle of Dodona in Thesprotia (northern Greece).
		Dione was probably the same as the Okeanis Dodone, an eponymous goddess of the shrine.
		DIO′NE (Diônê), a female Titan, a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys (Hesiod.
	www.theoi.com /Titan/TitanisDione.html (867 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Dione (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Dione DIONE [Dione], in astronomy, one of the named moons, or natural satellites, of Saturn.
		Also known as Saturn IV (or S4), Dione is 695 mi (1,120 km) in diameter, orbits Saturn at a mean distance of 234,500 mi (377,400 km), and has an orbital period of 2.737 earth daysâ”the rotational period is
		Dodona DODONA [Dodona], in Greek religion, the oldest oracle, in inland Epirus, near modern Janina, sacred to Zeus and Dione.
	www.encyclopedia.com /articles/03675.html (523 words)

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		For Glen and I (Sue), Dione is many things; she is home, she is freedom, she is travel, adventure, exhilaration and discovery.
		In ancient Greek mythology, Dione was one of the wives of the great god Zeus, mother of Aphrodite and goddess of the sea.
		Dione and Poseiden ruled the great sea world of the Greeks, conjuring maritime terrors like Scylla and Charybdis to test the hearts of mortal sailors seeking safe passage; men like Odysseus - a king among men, a mere plaything of the gods.
	www.geocities.com /sailingwithdione (453 words)

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