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584 Semiramis

Name
Name Semiramis
Designation 1906 SY
Discovery
Discoverer A. Kopff
Discovery date January 15, 1906
Discovery site Heidelberg
Orbital elements
Epoch December 23, 1998 (JDCT 2451170.5)
Eccentricity (e) 0.234
Semimajor axis (a) 2.374 AU
Perihelion (q) 1.818 AU
Aphelion (Q) 2.929 AU
Orbital period (P) 3.657 a
Inclination (i) 10.716°
Longitude of the ascending node (Ω) 282.481°
Argument of Perihelion (ω) 84.592°
Mean anomaly (M) -126.303°

584 Semiramis is a minor planet orbiting Sun. August Kopff (February 5, 1882 – April 25, 1960) was a German astronomer who discovered several comets and asteroids. ... Jump to: navigation, search January 15 is the 15th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1906 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search Map of Germany showing Heidelberg Heidelberg (halfway between Stuttgart and Frankfurt) is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. ... In astronomy, an epoch is a moment in time for which celestial coordinates or orbital elements are specified. ... Jump to: navigation, search December 23 is the 357th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (358th in leap years). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1998(MCMXCVIII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Julian day or Julian day number (JDN) is the number of days that have elapsed since 12 noon Greenwich Mean Time (UT or TT) on Monday, January 1, 4713 BC in the proleptic Julian calendar . ... In astrodynamics, under standard assumptions any orbit must be of conic section shape. ... In geometry, the semi-major axis (also semimajor axis) a applies to ellipses and hyperbolas. ... Jump to: navigation, search The astronomical unit (AU or au or a. ... This article is about several astronomical terms (apogee & perigee, aphelion & perihelion, generic equivalents based on apsis, and related but rarer terms. ... Jump to: navigation, search The astronomical unit (AU or au or a. ... This article is about several astronomical terms (apogee & perigee, aphelion & perihelion, generic equivalents based on apsis, and related but rarer terms. ... Jump to: navigation, search The astronomical unit (AU or au or a. ... The orbital period is the time it takes a planet (or another object) to make one full orbit. ... A Julian year is the length of an average year in the Julian calendar, 365. ... Inclination is one of the six orbital parameters describing the shape and orientation of a celestial orbit and is the angular distance of the orbital plane from the plane of the reference (usually planets equator or the ecliptic), stated in degrees. ... The Longitude of the ascending node () is one of the orbital elements used to specify the orbit of an object in space. ... The argument of the perihelion is one of the orbital elements describing the orbit of a planet. ... In the study of orbital dynamics the mean anomaly is a measure of time, specific to the orbiting body p, which is a multiple of 2π radians at and only at periapsis. ... Jump to: navigation, search Minor planets, or planetoids are minor bodies of the Solar system orbiting the Sun (or of other planetary systems orbiting other stars) that are larger than meteoroids (the largest of which might be taken to be around 10 meters or so across) but smaller than major... Jump to: navigation, search The Sun is the star at the centre of our Solar system. ...


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Semiramis: Information from Answers.com (1085 words)
According to legend, Semiramis was the daughter of the fish-goddess Derketo of Ascalon in Syria and a mortal.
These facts are partly to be explained by observing that, according to the legends, in her birth as well as in her disappearance from earth, Semiramis appears as a goddess, the daughter of the fish-goddess Atargatis, and herself connected with the doves of Ishtar or Astartë.
Semiramis goes on to become the Blessed Virgin Mary according to Hislop's version of the tale; most of the world's mythical figures are retellings of the tale of Semiramis and Nimrod.
Order of Nazorean Essenes (10948 words)
Semiramis was miraculously attended by doves until she was discovered and handed over to Simmas, a royal overseer; eventually she married Ninus.
She was intimately connected with temple traditions at Hieropolis: two statues of her stood near the temple, with one of which the story was connected that she had once tried to usurp the place of the goddess, and some thought that the "token" of c.
At the left side of the temple stands a statue of Semiramis indicating the temple with her right hand, which was set up for this reason.
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