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Encyclopedia > Toutatis

Toutatis or Teutates, ancient god of Celts and Gauls, whose name means father of the tribe. He was a god of war, growth and prosperity.


He represented the unity and the harmony of the tribe (often confused with Ogmios).


Each tribe had its own Toutatis.


Alternative: Albiorix ("king of the world"), Caturix ("king of the battle"), Loucetius, Rigisamos

Also, an asteroid: see 4179 Toutatis


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Asteroid Toutatis (1119 words)
Toutatis is one of the strangest objects in the solar system, with a highly irregular shape and an extraordinarily complex "tumbling" rotation.
This means that the rotation of Toutatis is a remarkable, well-preserved relic of the collision-related evolution of an asteroid.
The red, green, and blue axes are the principal axes of inertia; the magenta axis is the angular momentum vector; the yellow axis is the spin vector.
4179 Toutatis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (432 words)
The asteroid 4179 Toutatis (too-ta'-tis) is an Apollo, an Alinda and a Mars-crosser asteroid with a chaotic orbit produced by a 3:1 resonance with the planet Jupiter.
Radar imagery has shown that Toutatis is a highly irregular body consisting of two distinct "lobes", with maximum widths of about 4.6 km and 2.4 km respectively.
It is hypothesized that Toutatis formed from two originally separate bodies which coalesced at some point, with the resultant asteroid being compared to a "rubble pile".
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