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90482 Orcus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (318 words) |
 | 90482 Orcus (originally known by the provisional designation 2004 DW) is a Kuiper Belt object (KBO) that was discovered by Michael Brown of Caltech, Chad Trujillo of the Gemini Observatory, and David Rabinowitz of Yale University. |
| Since it shares a similar size and orbit to that of Pluto, it too must be named after a deity of the underworld. |
| Orcus is both another name for the Greek deity Hades and a separate god of the dead in Roman mythology. |
| Orcus (mythology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (316 words) |
| In Roman mythology, Orcus was a god of the underworld, punisher of broken oaths, more equivalent to Pluto than to the Greek Hades, and later identified with Dis Pater. |
| Orcus was a name used by Roman writers to identify a Gaulish god of the underworld. |
| The so-called "Tomb of the Orcus", an Etruscan site at Tarquinia, is a misnomer, resulting from its first discoverers mistaking as Orcus a hairy, bearded giant that was actually a figure of a Cyclops. |
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