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  • Neptune (Latin: Neptūnus) was the god of the sea in Roman mythology ... clothes in place of her sixth child, Jupiter. Saturn was forced to vomit ...
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  • as early as other Roman deities such as Jupiter and Juno. ... as the daughter of the supreme sky god Jupiter (cognate with the high Greek ...
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  • In Greek mythology, Uranus is the personification of the sky and the ... Beyond fathering the earliest gods of Greek mythology, Uranus does ...
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  • In Roman mythology, Saturn (Latin: Saturnus) was a major Roman deity ... Just like Cronus in Greek mythology, Saturn was the son of the supreme ...
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  • myths. Since many of the figures of Roman mythology were largely appropriated ... After Aeneas' death, Venus asked Jupiter to render Aeneas immortal ...
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  • The Galilean moons are the four moons of Jupiter discovered by Galileo ... Chinese astronomer Gan De observed one of Jupiter's moons in 362 B.C ...
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  • differ from that of the larger gas giants Jupiter and Saturn. For this reason ... the personification of heaven in Greek mythology, dominated by the light ...
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  • ::Note: For the Roman god Jupiter please click here. : Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar ...
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  • timings of eclipses involving the moons of Jupiter have been used to calculate ... The gas giant planets (Jupiter,JPL Solar Systems Simulator, [http://space ...
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  • known as a Jovian planet, after the planet Jupiter), the second-largest planet ... other four being Mercury, Venus, Mars, and Jupiter. It was the last planet ...
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  • triad of Mars (Greek God), Quirinus, and Jupiter (Greek God), whose three ... of the Vedas, and paralleling the mythology of the Greeks, the Vedic ...
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  • heavens. However, in later Babylonian mythology, it was the younger storm ... Enlil and the older gods in Babylonian mythology and Yahweh's rise ...
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  • in Indo-European religions (e.g., Zeus, Jupiter, Tiwaz) than to the God ... * Werner, E. T. C. A Dictionary of Chinese Mythology. Wakefield, NH: ...
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  • planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune ... Greeks), Venus (Aphrodite), Mars (Ares), Jupiter (Zeus), and Saturn (Kronos ...
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  • down a drain. The Great Red Spot on Jupiter appears to be a huge vortex. ... are Scylla and Charybdis of classical mythology in the Straits of Messina ...
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  • the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Studying the sizes, shapes ... the object between the planets Mars and Jupiter. Piazzi named it after Ceres ...
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  • [http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/status970813.html Jupiter's ... In ancient Greek mythology, the four winds were personified as gods ...
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  • Spot comparable to the Great Red Spot on Jupiter. Neptune's temperature ... it appeared very close (in conjunction) to Jupiter in the night sky. Believing ...
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  • However, his later works delved into mythology, and were infused with ... set of paintings depicting the Loves of Jupiter as described in Ovid's ...
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  • River that was also important in Egyptian mythology. According to ancient Egyptian ... and Apollo; as well as Roman temples to Jupiter Capitolinus and Mars. In ...
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