433 Eros

•  2012

  2012 will be a leap year starting on Sunday. In the Gregorian calendar, it will be the 2012th year of the Common Era, or of Anno Domini; the 12th year of the 3rd millennium and of the 21st century; and the 3rd of the 2010s decade. It has been designated Alan Turing Year, commemorating the mathematician, computer pioneer, and code-breaker on the centennial of Turing's birth. There are a variety of popular beliefs about the year 2012.

  

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•  Amor asteroid

  The Amor asteroids are a group of near-Earth asteroids named after the asteroid 1221 Amor. They approach the orbit of the Earth from beyond, but do not cross it. Most Amors do cross the orbit of Mars. The two moons of Mars, Deimos and Phobos, may be Amor asteroids that were captured by Mars' gravity. The most famous member of this group is 433 Eros, which was the first asteroid to be orbited and then landed upon by a human probe.

  

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•  1036 Ganymed

  1036 Ganymed is the largest Amor asteroid, at about 32 km in diameter. It was discovered by Walter Baade on October 23, 1924 and is named after Ganymede, the Trojan prince turned god whom Zeus designated the cupbearer to the Greek gods. Jupiter's moon Ganymede is also named after that individual. It is also a Mars-crosser asteroid.

  

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•  3908 Nyx

  3908 Nyx is an Amor and Mars-crosser asteroid. It was discovered by Hans-Emil Schuster on August 6, 1980 and is named after Nyx, the Greek goddess of the night, after which Pluto's moon Nix is also named. It is 1–2 km in diameter and is a V-type asteroid, meaning that it may be a fragment of the asteroid 4 Vesta.

  

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•  719 Albert

  719 Albert is a Mars-crossing, Amor asteroid; it was the second one discovered after 433 Eros.

  

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•  3552 Don Quixote

  3552 Don Quixote is a small main belt, Amor, Mars crossing, potentially hazardous asteroid. It has a highly inclined comet-like orbit, and measures about 19 km in diameter. Its rotation period is 7.7 hours. It was discovered by Paul Wild in 1983, and is named after the comic knight who is the eponymous hero of Cervantes' Spanish novel Don Quixote. Don Quixote is suspected of being an extinct comet. Don Quixote is frequently perturbed by Jupiter.

  

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•  3352 McAuliffe

  3352 McAuliffe is an Amor and Mars-crosser asteroid which was discovered by Norman G. Thomas on February 6, 1981. It is named in memory of Christa McAuliffe, the civilian astronaut who died in the 1986 Challenger space shuttle disaster. The asteroids 3350 Scobee, 3351 Smith, 3353 Jarvis, 3354 McNair, 3355 Onizuka and 3356 Resnik commemorate the other crew members. McAuliffe is an A-type asteroid, meaning that it is rich in olivine.

  

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•  Transit of Venus, 2012

  The next transit of Venus will occur on June 5–June 6 in 2012, succeeding the previous transit on June 8, 2004.

  

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•  Expo 2012

  Title International Exposition Yeosu Korea 2012 Location Shinhang district, Yeosu, Republic of Korea Theme The Living Ocean and Coast: Diversity of Resources and Sustainable Activities Period May 12, 2012 - Aug 12, 2012 (3 months)

  

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•  2012 Doomsday prediction

  

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• 2012 by likeorhate
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• Asteroids named from Greek mythology by likeorhate
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•  Umm al-Quwain

  Umm al-Quwain is one of the emirates in the United Arab Emirates. It is located in the north of the country. The emirate was ruled until his death by Rashid bin Ahmad Al Mu'alla, who was a member of the UAE's Supreme Council since 1981. The emirate had 62,000 inhabitants in 2003 (making it the least populous emirate in the federation) and has an area of 750 square kilometers.

  

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•  Overo lethal white syndrome

  

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•  PP7

  PP7 may refer to: PP7 battery PP7, a weapon used in the video game GoldenEye 007

  

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•  Louis Cottrell

  

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•  Hexagonal crystal family

  

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