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  Galatea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Galatea galante is the heroine of a book by Alfred Bester, based on the Pygmalion myth.
Galatea is the name of an evil clone of the cartoon version of Supergirl.
Mount Galatea (3185 meters) is a peak in the Kananaskis, Alberta region of the Canadian Rockies.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Galatea   (299 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Galatea
Galatea is the fourth known moon from the planet.
Galatea (sea nymph), in Greek mythology, one of the 50 Nereids, the daughters of Nereus, the old man of the sea.
Although popular novels may gain berths on the best-seller lists and then sleep there for ages, the fiction that matters most frequently is difficult, often requiring the reader to cross into unfamiliar terrain or to learn a new way of using language.
encarta.msn.com /Galatea.html   (166 words)

  
 Galatea   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
#Galatea was also the name of the maiden who was originally a statue carved by Pygmalion, created in the image of, and brought to life by Aphrodite.
The HMS Galatea was a British cruiser that participated in the Battle of Jutland of World War I.
Mount Galatea (3185 meters) is a peak in the Kananaskis region of the Canadian Rockies.
www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Galatea.html   (321 words)

  
 Galatea [Definition]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Galatea is a novel by British author Philip Pullman Philip Pullman, (born October 19, 1946) is an English writer, educated at Exeter College, Oxford, who is the bestselling author of the His Dark Materials trilogy of fantasy novels and a number of other books, purportedly for children, but attracting increasing attention by adult readers.
Galatea was found by the prolific comet discoverer Ernst Tempel on August 29, 1862 in Marseilles, France.
Mount Galatea (3185 meters) is a peak in the Kananaskis, Alberta region of the Canadian Rockies The Canadian Rockies comprise the Canadian segment of the North American Rocky Mountains range.
www.wikimirror.com /Galatea   (815 words)

  
 The Solar System
For that reason most of It's moons were not discovered until 1989 when NASA sent a satellite to explore the world.
Naiad is the closest moon to the surface of Neptune.
Galatea was a Sicilian who was loved by the Cyclops Polyphemus.
www.kidsastronomy.com /neptune/moons.htm   (443 words)

  
 Planetary ring - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
As a result, current ring systems must be of modern origin, possibly formed of debris from a moon that suffered a large impact or was disrupted by the parent planet's gravity when it passed within the Roche limit.
The gravity of shepherd moons serves to maintain a sharply defined edge to the ring; material that drifts closer to the shepherd moon's orbit is either deflected back into the body of the ring, ejected from the system, or accreted onto the moon itself.
It is thought that the gravitational influence of the shepherd moon Galatea and possibly other as-yet undiscovered shepherd moons are responsible for this clumpiness.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Planetary_rings   (400 words)

  
 Sea and Sky: Other Neptunian Moons
These moons are extremely small, and most were not discovered until the Voyager 2 encounter with Neptune in 1989.
This moon was one of several discovered by Voyager 2 in 1989.
Galatea orbits Neptune in the same direction as the planet rotates, and remains close to the planet's equatorial plane.
www.seasky.org /solarsystem/sky3i3.html   (717 words)

  
 Galatea
Galatea is a satellite of the planet Neptune.
Compared with the satellites of other planets of the solar system, Galatea is a small Moon with a diameter of 158 km and an unknown mass.
Galatea is an average distance of 61953 km from Neptune and completes its rotation of Neptune in 0.43 days.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /moons/galatea.htm   (61 words)

  
 Space Today Online - Moons of the Solar System
The Moon is one of the larger natural satellites with a diameter of 2,160 miles.
The moons are 120,000 miles and 131,000 miles from the center of planet Saturn between the moons Mimas and Enceladus.
The smallest moon is Deimos, at Mars, only seven miles in diameter, although its size now is rivaled by the small shepherd moons discovered by Cassini at Saturn and by others yet to be counted and named in the rings around Jupiter, Saturn and other giant gas planets in the outer Solar System.
www.spacetoday.org /SolSys/Moons/MoonsSolSys.html   (1335 words)

  
 Neptune's Moon Galatea
Galatea [gal-eh-TEE-eh] lies 37,200 kilometers (23,100 miles) from Neptune.
Galatea circles the planet in the same direction as Neptune rotates, and remains close to Neptune's equatorial plane.
The above image is smeared so that Galatea appears highly elongated.
www.solarviews.com /eng/galatea.htm   (68 words)

  
 Neptune: Moons   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
In August of that year Voyager 2 provided evidence of 6 more moons, including confirmation of a tiny moon (Larissa) which had been hinted at by a chance star occultation in 1981.
Nereid is a small moon that orbits Neptune in an extremely unusual orbit.
It is the most eccentric orbit of any planet or moon in the solar system, at its farthest distance being almost 8 times as far from Neptune as its closest approach.
www.space.com /reference/neptune/moons.html   (1070 words)

  
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Galatea crouched beside the recumbent turtle and lay her fingers gently on his head, turning it so that she could feel the faint but steady pulse beneath his skin.
Galatea hadn't expected a lightning reflex from him, but suddenly her hand was trapped between the prongs of his sai.
Galatea had lit a cheery driftwood blaze while she waited for the water to boil on her little fuel stove, and the tea to steep.
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 Galatea (moon)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Galatea is the fourth known moon of Neptune, named after the Nereid of Greek legend.
NOVA Online: To the Moon Companion site to the special which chronicled the untold science and engineering story of how we got to the moon.
The Moon in General General information Moon site providing a summary of geological and physical properties.
www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Galatea_(moon).html   (358 words)

  
 Galatea (moon)
Galatea ("GAL uh TEE uh") is the fourth known moon of Neptune, named after the Nereid of Greek legend.
It was discovered in 1989 by Voyager 2 and very little is known about it.
Since its orbit is below Neptune's synchronous orbit radius it is slowly decaying due to tidal forces and will one day break up into a planetary ring or impact on Neptune's surface.
pedia.newsfilter.co.uk /wikipedia/g/ga/galatea__moon_.html   (108 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Galatea   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Galatea is a piece of art work by Emily Short rendered in the form of interactive fiction, and written in Inform.
HMS Galatea, after the Galatea of mythology, has been the name of eight ships in the British Royal Navy.
Mount Galatea is located in the upper Spray Lakes Valley of Kananaskis Park of the Canadian Rockies.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Galatea   (980 words)

  
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If the moon rode high in heaven, as he passed through the outlying gardens he might catch a glimpse of some deserted girl shredding the magical herbs into the burning brazier, and sending upward to the 'lady Selene' the song which was to charm her lover home.
Three times do I pour libation, and thrice, my Lady Moon, I speak this spell:- Be it with a friend that he lingers, be it with a leman he lies, may he as clean forget them as Theseus, of old, in Dia--so legends tell--did utterly forget the fair-tressed Ariadne.
But he was singing of Galatea, and pining in his place he sat by the sea-weed of the beach, from the dawn of day, with the direst hurt beneath his breast of mighty Cypris's sending,--the wound of her arrow in his heart!
www.knowledgerush.com /pg/etext03/thbm10.txt   (22085 words)

  
 Neptune's Small Moons   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Neptune also has several tiny distant and unnamed moons which were discovered recently.
Naiad, Thalassa, Despina and Galatea are all irregularly shaped.
Neptune VI Galatea ("gal eh TEE eh") is the fourth of Neptune's known satellites:
seds.lpl.arizona.edu /nineplanets/nineplanets/nepmoons.html   (228 words)

  
 Neptune's Moons   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Kids Astronomy; Neptune's Moons - Even though this website was updated in 2004, it neglected to mention the discoveries of 5 moons since then.
Neptune's Moons - Neptune's moons is a frequently updated site, which is important for such a topic because 5 new moons have been discovered in the last three years.
Moons of Neptune - This website talks about Neptune's eight moons that were discovered around 1989.
www.kn.pacbell.com /wired/fil/pages/listneptuneju.html   (1034 words)

  
 [== Moons of Neptune==]
Neptune has 11 moons, 6 of which were discovered by Voyager 2.
The temperature of its surface is -235°C and the atmosphere is extremely thin.
To find the moons, Holman and Kavelaars took multiple exposures of the sky surrounding Neptune while tracking the planet as it moved across the sky.
neptune.hit.bg /moonse.html   (324 words)

  
 Galatea (moon)
Galatea ( gal'-a-tee'-a) is the fourth known moon of Neptune, named after Galatea, one of the Nereids of Greek legend.
Galatea was discovered in July, 1989 from the images taken by the Voyager 2 probe.
Since its orbit is below Neptune's synchronous orbit radius, it is slowly decaying due to tidal forces and will one day break up into a planetary ring or impact Neptune.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Galatea_%28moon%29   (148 words)

  
 Galatea's Kisses of Forgetfulness - Post a comment   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
When the Moon is full on Wednesday night it will be just about as close to Earth as it gets in its elliptical orbit, the U.S. space agency said.
At the far end of its ellipse, called apogee, the moon is 252,700 miles from Earth.
In addition, the Earth at this time of year is closer to the sun on its own elliptical orbit, and therefore the moon is as well, so it has more of the sun's light to reflect, adding to its brightness.
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 Moon Goddesses   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Gala or Galatea is the original Moon Mother of Gaelic and Gaulish tribes.
To the Aztecs, the moon was called Mictecaciuarl, the devourer of the dead, and she had the same role among the Maoris and the TarTars.
Artemis is the virgin Moon Goddess, The Lady of the Beasts, who roams the forests with Her band of Nymphs protecting beasts and thier young.
moonwake.tripod.com /covenofthegrove/id8.html   (342 words)

  
 Moons
Their shape reflects their formation history, irregular objects are ill-formed moons or pieces of a larger moon, spherical objects were once molten spheres, probably at the time of their formation.
Hyperion is one of the smaller moons of Saturn.
Mimas is one of the innermost moons of Saturn with a very large impact crater that came close to fracturing the moon
zebu.uoregon.edu /~js/ast121/lectures/lec17.html   (608 words)

  
 Observations of Neptune draw rings around theory about arcs
In this case, the theory held that the resonance between the arcs and a nearby small moon, Galatea, created 86 stable segments along the ring (and of the 86, only a few had the extra material in them -- perhaps from collisions between larger debris -- that caused them to show up as arcs).
That theory held that the stable zones could be created by the action of two moons, Galatea and another moon in the arcs' orbit.
Or moons, plural: Sicardy and Christophe Dumas, leader of the Hubble team, said that two or more additional satellites might be acting as shepherds for the arcs, creating a complex web of resonances.
www.chron.com /content/interactive/space/astronomy/news/1999/solarsys/990824.html   (605 words)

  
 Galatea (moon) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Galatea was discovered in July, 1989 from the images taken by the (Click link for more info and facts about Voyager 2) Voyager 2 (An investigation conducted using a probe instrument) probe.
Since its orbit is below Neptune's synchronous orbit radius, it is slowly decaying due to (Click link for more info and facts about tidal force) tidal force s and will one day break up into a (Click link for more info and facts about planetary ring) planetary ring or impact Neptune.
Not to be confused with the (Any of numerous small celestial bodies composed of rock and metal that move around the sun (mainly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter)) asteroid (Click link for more info and facts about 74 Galatea) 74 Galatea.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/G/Ga/Galatea_(moon).htm   (155 words)

  
 Neptune
It has eight moons, six of which were found by Voyager.
Triton [TRY-tun] is the largest moon of Neptune, with a diameter of 2,700 kilometers (1,680 miles).
The photos show that the moon's surface reflects about 14 percent of the sunlight that strikes it, making it somewhat more reflective than Earth's Moon, and more than twice as reflective as Proteus.
www.alpbatman.com /astronom/solar/neptune/pneptune.html   (1380 words)

  
 Sandra Moon
American Soprano Sandra Moon made her professional debut in the role of Frasquita in Ponnelle's staging of Carmen with Placido Domingo singing Don Jose at the Lyric Opera of Chicago.
Her first engagement in Europe was at the Stadttheater in Aachen where she sang such roles as Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier, Pamina, Susanna, Oscar and Norina.
Moon is a native of Dayton, Ohio and received her musical training from the Cincinnati-Conservatory of Music, as well as being a member of the Lyric Opera of Chicago's Young Artist program.
home.arcor.de /an/annette.degen/Solisten/Moon_Sandra_engl.htm   (378 words)

  
 Galatea (Mond) -- Galatea Entdeckung Entdeckung durch Voyager 2 ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Benannt wurde der Mond nach Galatea, einer der Nereiden aus der griechischen Mythologie.
Galatea umkreist Neptun in einem mittleren Abstand von 61.953 km in 10 Stunden und 17 Minuten.
Galatea ist ein unregelmäßiger Körper mit einer Ausdehnung von 204×184×144 km.
galatea_mond.exsudo.de   (140 words)

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