• it became a lost asteroid until 1974. It was named after Boreas from Greek mythology. Boreas was discovered on 1 September 1953, by Belgian astronomer...
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  • Look up Boreas or boreas in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Boreas may refer to: Boreas (god), Greek wind and god of the north wind Boreas (film), 2006...
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  • 1952, and a number of asteroids, including notably the Amor asteroid 1916 Boreas and the Trojan asteroid 1583 Antilochus. He also discovered 1652 Hergé...
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    EA1 1580 Betulia 1950 KA 1627 Ivar 1929 SH 1915 Quetzalcoatl 1953 EA 1916 Boreas 1953 RA 1917 Cuyo 1968 AA 1943 Anteros 1973 EC 1980 Tezcatlipoca 1950...
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  • Quetzálcoatl 1953 EA Quetzalcoatl, Aztec god MPC · 1915 1916 Boreas 1953 RA Boreas, Greek god MPC · 1916 1917 Cuyo 1968 AA University of Cuyo, Argentina MPC ·...
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  • March 9, 1953 Palomar A. G. Wilson AMO · critical 500 m MPC · JPL 1916 Boreas 1953 RA Boreas September 1, 1953 Uccle S. Arend AMO +1km 3.5 km MPC · JPL 1917...
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    Borea ("Boreas") was an Italian Nembo-class destroyer. Commissioned into service in the Italian Regia Marina (Royal Navy) in 1903, she served in the Italo-Turkish...
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    v t e Minor planets navigator 1916 Boreas 1917 Cuyo 1918 Aiguillon...
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    Alinda 1036 Ganymed 1221 Amor 1580 Betulia 1627 Ivar 1915 Quetzálcoatl 1916 Boreas 1917 Cuyo 1943 Anteros 1980 Tezcatlipoca 2059 Baboquivari 2061 Anza 2202...
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  • Quetzálcoatl. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. p. 154. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-29925-7_1916. ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3. "1915 Quetzálcoatl (1953 EA)". Minor Planet Center...
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    one of the first near-Earth asteroids to be discovered. 1916 Boreas The Amor asteroid Boreas, provisionally designated 1953 RA, was discovered on 1 September...
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    (June 2002). "Lightcurve Photometry of 551 Ortrud, 1118 Hanskya, and 1916 Boreas from Sunflower Observatory". The Minor Planet Bulletin. 29: 37–38. Bibcode:2002MPBu...
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    "The land of the Hyperboreans, men living beyond the home of Boreas." Homer placed Boreas in Thrace, and therefore Hyperborea was in his opinion north...
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  • 13684 Borbona 39540 Borchert 175726 Borda 11225 Borden 9262 Bordovitsyna 1916 Boreas 16065 Borel 11510 Borges 25230 Borgis 95219 Borgman 44717 Borgoamozzano...
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  • Schubart 1912 Anubis 1913 Sekanina 1914 Hartbeespoortdam 1915 Quetzálcoatl 1916 Boreas 1917 Cuyo 1918 Aiguillon 1919 Clemence 1920 Sarmiento 1921 Pala 1922...
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    as the central, pusher engine on that design. The prototype flew in late 1916 and was soon put into production. Known by Caproni at the time as the Caproni...
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    Yosemite toad (category Amphibians described in 1916)
    reticulate in developing females. Unlike other members of the A. boreas species group (A. boreas, A. nelsoni, A. nestor [extinct], A. canorus, and A. exsul)...
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    winds bring rain, then when Homer says a "stormy Boreas" he means a different wind from a "loud Boreas" (i.e. wet north = NW, loud north = N) Nonetheless...
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    The Mermaid 1901 The Crystal Ball 1902 The Missal 1902 Windflowers 1902 Boreas 1903 Echo and Narcissus 1903 Psyche Opening the Golden Box 1903 Psyche Opening...
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  • Hyginus, he was a son of the sea god Poseidon by Eurymede. Calais: son of Boreas (the Greek god of the cold north wind and the bringer of winter) and Oreithyia...
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    Eleusinian mysteries, while Quintus Smyrnaeus makes the Aurae daughters of Boreas, the god of the north wind. Aurae was the title of a play by the Athenian...
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  • established and named "Harpalyce". Harpalyce, a daughter of the north wind god Boreas according to a medieval source. Hyginus, Fabulae 206, 238, 239, 246, 253...
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    1 Ca.135 Ca.301 Ca.302 Ca.303 Ca.304 Ca.305 Ca.306 Ca.307 Ca.308 Ca.308 Borea Ca.309 Ca.310 Ca.311 Ca.312 Ca.313 Ca.314 Ca.315 Ca.316 Ca.3171 Ca.318 Ca...
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    Città di Catania, the minelayers Minerva and Partenope, and the destroyers Borea, Francesco Nullo, and Giuseppe Cesare Abba departed Taranto, Italy, to escort...
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    Vigor Shipyards (category Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1916)
    Swallow (AM-4), Sanderling (AM-37) ... Gannet (AM-41) conversion Robins DD Boreas (AF-8) (1941) Wharton (AP-7) (1940) Griffin (AS-13) (ca. 1941) See also:...
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    Italian destroyer Nembo (1901) (category Maritime incidents in 1916)
    well as Aquilone, Borea, Turbine, and their sister ship Espero made up the 5th Destroyer Squadron, based at Taranto. On 23 June 1916 Nembo and the French...
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  • 134°36′E / 38.7°S 134.6°E / -38.7; 134.6 (Calais) 31 2006 Argonaut son of Boreas the north wind WGPSN Canthus 69°36′S 17°48′E / 69.6°S 17.8°E / -69.6;...
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    who perjure themselves. In Book XXIII, she delivers Achilles's prayer to Boreas and Zephyrus to light the funeral pyre of Patroclus. In the last book, Zeus...
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    Esmark's mountain glacier traverse 1823− the key to his discovery of Ice Ages. Boreas, 47(1), 1-10. Lysefjord and Lysebotn Destination Ryfylke Map hiking Ryfylkemuseeet...
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    Harris, Ernest Howard (1947), Literature in Estonia (2nd ed.), London: Boreas, p. 21 "766. Monatssitzung vom 3. November 1920", Sitzungsberichte der gelehrten...
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