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  Solar system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
All planets but two are in turn orbited by natural satellites (usually termed "moons" after Earth's Moon), and every planet past the asteroid belt is encircled by planetary rings of dust and other particles.
The planets, with the exception of Earth, are named after gods and goddesses from Greco-Roman mythology.
Uranus has 27 moons, the largest being Titania, Oberon, Umbriel, Ariel and Miranda.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Solar_system   (6529 words)

  
 Changelings: An Essay by D. L. Ashliman
A common trick was to make preparations in the presence of the changeling to brew beer or to cook stew in eggshells.
An important subplot of this play is built around Oberon's and Titania's (king and queen of the fairies) fight over the guardianship of a changeling boy.
Jacob Grimm, Deutsche Mythologie (Frankfurt am Main: Ullstein, 1981 [reprint of 4th edition of 1876]), v.
www.pitt.edu /~dash/changeling.html   (4292 words)

  
 Uranus - Myth - Astrology - Crystalinks
The names for these moons are chosen from characters from the works of Shakespeare and Alexander Pope.
The five main satellites are Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania and Oberon.
Uranus is the sky god and first ruler.
www.crystalinks.com /uranus.html   (1167 words)

  
 Titanium   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
At around the same time, Franz Joseph Muller also produced a similar substance, but could not identify it.
The element was independently rediscovered several years later by German chemist Martin Heinrich Klaproth in rutile ore. Klaproth confirmed it as a new element and in 1795 he named it for the Latin word for Earth (also the name for the Titans of Greek mythology).
Although Titanium metal is relatively uncommon, Due to the cost of extraction, titanium dioxide (also called titanium(IV), Titanium white, or even titania) is cheap, nontoxic, readily available in bulk, and very widely used as a white pigment in paint, enamel, lacquer, plastic and construction cement.
titanium.iqnaut.net   (2226 words)

  
 The Nine Planets Solar System Tour
It's actually pretty easy to make a simple but powerful telescope.
This website is an overview of the history, mythology, and current scientific knowledge of the planets, moons and other objects in our solar system.
Each page has my text and NASA's images, some have sounds and movies, most provide references to additional related information.
www.nineplanets.org /nineplanets.html   (537 words)

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