"Shams (goddess) Shams or ""Shamsum"", also called ""Dhat-Ba' dhanum"", is a sun goddess of Arabian mythology. She was the patron goddess of the Himyarite Kingdom . Her name meant shining, sun or brilliant. She was the South Arabian equivalent of the North Arabian sun goddess Nuha (deity). Prior to Islam, religion on the Arabian Peninsula focused on local gods, with every tribe and kingdom having their particular protective deities. However, there were also gods common for all Arabs, and the trinity of gods representing the Sun, the Moon and the planet Venus seem to have been worshiped throughout Arabia, though"
"structure, and mode of origin,"" Part 3 Regional Geology, ""Earth, Moon, and Planets,"" July 1990, ""Volume 50"", Issue 1, Springer, pp 343–388. (Page 1). Aphrodite Terra Aphrodite Terra is a highland region on Venus, near the equator. Aphrodite Terra is named after the goddess of love, the Greek equivalent of the Roman goddess Venus. It is about the same size as Africa, and much rougher than Ishtar Terra. The surface appears buckled and fractured which suggests large compressive forces. There are also numerous extensive lava flows. Channels cross this terrain and some have an interesting bow shape to them. Aphrodite"
"Aphrodite Terra Aphrodite Terra is a highland region on Venus, near the equator. Aphrodite Terra is named after the goddess of love, the Greek equivalent of the Roman goddess Venus. It is about the same size as Africa, and much rougher than Ishtar Terra. The surface appears buckled and fractured which suggests large compressive forces. There are also numerous extensive lava flows. Channels cross this terrain and some have an interesting bow shape to them. Aphrodite Terra also has mountain ranges but they are only about half the size of the mountains on Ishtar. Aphrodite Terra has two main regions:"
"inclination of 12° with respect to the ecliptic. ""Amor"" has an Earth minimum orbital intersection distance of which corresponds to 41.6 lunar distances. In March 1940, it approached Earth to , its closest approach of all close encounters since 1900. Only in March 2129, it will approach Earth at a similar distance of . This minor planet was named after the Roman god of love, Cupid, also known as Amor in Latin, and the Roman equivalent of the Greek god Eros. The near-Earth asteroids 433 Eros and 763 Cupido are also named after the god of love. The official naming"
"Ishtar Terra after Ishtar, the Babylonian goddess of love, and is about the size of Australia. Maxwell Montes, the highest mountain on Venus, lies on Ishtar Terra. Its peak is above the Venusian average surface elevation. The southern continent is called Aphrodite Terra, after the Greek goddess of love, and is the larger of the two highland regions at roughly the size of South America. A network of fractures and faults covers much of this area. The absence of evidence of lava flow accompanying any of the visible calderas remains an enigma. The planet has few impact craters, demonstrating that"
"Lada Terra is named after Lada, the Slavic goddess of love. Lada Terra is one of eight distinct regions on the surface of Venus. Ishtar Terra and Aphrodite Terra are the other significant terrae of the planet, located near the northern polar region and the equator, respectively. Lada Terra has a diameter of . and covers most of the south pole region on Venus. The region consists of heavily deformed terrains indicating crustal deformation processes effecting the area in the past. The lowlands are much smoother terrain with very little deformation, which scientists postulate to be relatively young lava flow"
"Roman god of the underworld's traditional Latin name, Dis. Venus, in order to bring love to Pluto, sent her son Amor (also known as Cupid) to hit Pluto with one of his arrows. Proserpina was in Sicily, at the Pergusa Lake near Enna, where she was playing with some nymphs and collecting flowers, when Pluto came out from the volcano Etna with four black horses named Orphnaeus, Aethon, Nycteus and Alastor. He abducted her in order to marry her and live with her in the underworld of which he was the ruler. Her mother Ceres, also known as Demeter, the"
"in Spanish and ""mercoledì"" in Italian). Dante Alighieri associated Mercury with the liberal art of dialectic. In Chinese astrology Mercury represents Water, the fourth element, therefore symbolizing communication, intelligence, and elegance. Venus () is the ruling planet of Libra and is exalted in Pisces. In classical Roman mythology, Venus is the goddess of love and beauty, famous for the passions she could stir among the gods. Her cults may represent the religiously legitimate charm and seduction of the divine by mortals, in contrast to the formal, contractual relations between most members of Rome's official pantheon and the state, and the"
"39 Laetitia Laetitia (; minor planet designation: 39 Laetitia) is a large main-belt asteroid that was discovered by French astronomer Jean Chacornac on February 8, 1856, and named after “Laetitia”, one of the epithets of Ceres, Roman goddess of fertility and abundance. Photometric observations of this asteroid gathered between 1968–74 were used to build a light curve that provided shape and rotation information. It has the general shape of an elongated triaxial ellipsoid with ratios between the lengths of the axes equal to 15:9:5. Major surface features are on a scale of 10 km and the surface color does not"
"Capitol when the building of the new Temple of Capitoline Jove required the exauguration of deities who already occupied the site. Juno is the equivalent to Hera, the Greek goddess for love and marriage. Juno is the Roman goddess of love and marriage. Ancient etymologies associated Juno's name with ""iuvare"", ""to aid, benefit"", and ""iuvenescendo"", ""rejuvenate"", sometimes connecting it to the renewal of the new and waxing moon, perhaps implying the idea of a moon goddess. Juno's theology is one of the most complex and disputed issues in Roman religion. Even more than other major Roman deities, Juno held a"
"the planet that serves as the setting for the story. The human girl, Eva Nine, carries out a perilous search for others of her kind, accompanied by a caretaker robot and two friendly denizens of the planet. This relates to the goddess Orbona from Roman myths because she is an orphan of sorts, though accompanied by a robot she calls Muthr who has raised her in the underground Sanctuary, and she wanted to find others like her- like a parent who wants a child, or vice versa. In the HBO drama series, ""Rome"", the goddess is mentioned as the Blessed"
"and the Vulcan Stonn in the episode ""Amok Time"". Montaigne was also considered for the original role of Spock on that series. James Sikking would later appear as Captain Styles in the film """" (1984). ""The most brilliant planet in our solar system is Venus, named for the Greek Love-Goddess. It is closer to Earth than any other planet — twenty-eight million miles away. Until sometime in the last half of the twentieth century it is still a planet shrouded in mystery, enveloped in a heavy blanket of clouds and steam. Because its surface temperature was believed to be several"
"the body's rotation period, composition, spectral type and shape remain unknown. This minor planet is named from Greek mythology after the handsome, ever-youthful vegetation god Adonis, with whom the goddess Aphrodite fell in love. Persephone was also taken by Adonis' beauty and refused to give him back to Aphrodite. The dispute between the two goddesses was settled by Zeus: Adonis was to spend one-third of every year with each goddess and the last third wherever he chose. He was killed by a boar sent by Artemis. The minor planets 105 Artemis, 399 Persephone, 1388 Aphrodite and 5731 Zeus were named"
"vegetative and animal fertility and abundance. Tellumo is identified by St. Augustine as the male counterpart of Tellus. A Tellurus is named uniquely by Martianus Capella (1.49). In several modern Romance languages, ""terra"" (or French ""terre"") is the name of planet Earth. Following post-classical Latin astronomical terminology, Earth is sometimes referred to as ""Terra"". Terra (mythology) In ancient Roman religion and myth, Tellus Mater or Terra Mater (""Mother Earth"") is a goddess of the earth. Although Tellus and Terra are hardly distinguishable during the Imperial era, ""Tellus"" was the name of the original earth goddess in the religious practices of"
"the first time as separate bodies during Galileo's observations of the Jupiter system. Europa is named after Europa, daughter of the king of Tyre, a Phoenician noblewoman in Greek mythology. Like all the Galilean satellites, Europa is named after a lover of Zeus, the Greek counterpart of Jupiter. Europa was courted by Zeus and became the queen of Crete. The naming scheme was suggested by Simon Marius, who discovered the four satellites independently. Marius attributed the proposal to Johannes Kepler. The names fell out of favor for a considerable time and were not revived in general use until the mid-20th"
"on the Roman Forum. Other temples and shrines in Rome dedicated to Concordia were largely geographically related to the main temple, and included (in date order): In Pompeii, the high priestess Eumachia dedicated a building to Concordia Augusta. Harmonians and some Discordians equate Concordia with Aneris. Her opposite is thus Discordia, or the Greek Eris. The asteroid 58 Concordia is named after her. Concordia (mythology) In ancient Roman religion, Concordia is the goddess who embodies agreement in marriage and society. Her Greek equivalent is usually regarded as Harmonia, with musical harmony a metaphor for an ideal of social concord or"
"Schröter overestimated it as 2,613 km. Piazzi originally suggested the name ""Cerere Ferdinandea"" for his discovery, after the goddess Ceres (Roman goddess of agriculture, ""Cerere"" in Italian, who was believed to have originated in Sicily and whose oldest temple was there) and King Ferdinand of Sicily. ""Ferdinandea"", however, was not acceptable to other nations and was dropped. Ceres was called ""Hera"" for a short time in Germany. In Greece, it is called Demeter (Δήμητρα), after the Greek equivalent of the Roman ""Cerēs""; in English, that name is used for the asteroid 1108 Demeter. The regular adjectival forms of the name"
"Dione is identified as the mother of the Roman goddess of love, Venus, or equivalently as the mother of the Greek goddess of love, Aphrodite; but Dione is also sometimes identified with Aphrodite. A Dione is among the Titanides or Titanesses. She is called a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, hence an Oceanid, a water-nymph. She is otherwise called a daughter of Gaia; according to worshippers of Orpheus her father is the sky-god Uranus, while others identify her father as Aether. She and Zeus are called the parents of Aphrodite by some ancient sources. Hesiod listed Dione among the wives"
"is a major deity within Hellenismos (Hellenic Polytheistic Reconstructionism), a Neopagan religion which seeks to authentically revive and recreate the religion of ancient Greece in the modern world. Unlike Wiccans, Hellenists are usually strictly polytheistic or pantheistic. Hellenists venerate Aphrodite primarily as the goddess of romantic love, but also as a goddess of sexuality, the sea, and war. Her many epithets include ""Sea Born"", ""Killer of Men"", ""She upon the Graves"", ""Fair Sailing"", and ""Ally in War"". Aphrodite Aphrodite is an ancient Greek goddess associated with love, beauty, pleasure, and procreation. She is identified with the planet Venus, which is"
"Mars. The ""Dawn"" team was granted viewing time on the Hubble Space Telescope in September 2007 for a once-in-twenty-year opportunity to view Pallas at closest approach, to obtain comparative data for Ceres and Vesta. 2 Pallas is named after Pallas Athena (Ancient Greek: ), an alternate name for the goddess Athena. In some mythologies Athena killed Pallas, then adopted her friend's name out of mourning. ""Pallas"" is a Greek name and some other languages use variant versions of it for the asteroid: in Italian, ""Pallade"", Russian ""Pallada"", Spanish ""Palas"", and Arabic ""Bālās"", for example. In Chinese, however, the asteroid has"
"satellites in 1610. Amalthea is named after the nymph Amalthea from Greek mythology, who nursed the infant Zeus (the Greek equivalent of Jupiter) with goat's milk. Its Roman numeral designation is . The name ""Amalthea"" was not formally adopted by the IAU until 1976, although it had been in informal use for many decades. The name was initially suggested by Camille Flammarion. Before 1976, Amalthea was most commonly known simply as . Amalthea orbits Jupiter at a distance of 181 000 km (2.54 Jupiter radii). The orbit of Amalthea has an eccentricity of 0.003 and an inclination of 0.37° relative"
"to whoever first submits a report to the MPC with enough positional data for a decent orbit determination, and that the credited discoverer has priority in naming it. This was Ortiz ""et al."", and they proposed the name ""Ataecina"", an Iberian goddess of the underworld. She is the equivalent of the Roman goddess Proserpina, who was in turn one of Pluto's lovers. However, as a chthonic deity, ""Ataecina"" would only have been an appropriate name for an object in orbital resonance with Neptune, which Haumea was not. Following guidelines established by the IAU that classical Kuiper belt objects be given"
"planet was named after Polymele, the daughter of Peleus from Greek mythology. According to the Latin author Gaius Julius Hyginus ( 64 BC – AD 17), she is the wife of the Argonaut Menoetius and the mother of Patroclus, who participated in the Trojan War. Polymele is also known as ""Philomela""; that name was previously used for the asteroid 196 Philomela. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 22 February 2016 (). ""Polymele"" is planned to be visited by the ""Lucy"" spacecraft which will launch in 2021. The fly by is scheduled for 15 September"
"a poem about the Roman calendar. The first is that the month is named after the Roman goddess Juno, the goddess of marriage and the wife of the supreme deity Jupiter; the second is that the name comes from the Latin word ""iuniores"", meaning ""younger ones"", as opposed to ""maiores"" (""elders"") for which the preceding month May ""(Maius)"" may be named. Another source claims June is named after Lucius Junius Brutus, founder of the roman Republic and ancestor of the Roman gens Junia . In ancient Rome, the period from mid-May through mid-June was considered inauspicious for marriage. Ovid says"
"Desdemona (moon) Desdemona ( ) is an inner satellite of Uranus. It was discovered from the images taken by ""Voyager 2"" on 13 January 1986, and was given the temporary designation S/1986 U 6. Desdemona is named after the wife of Othello in William Shakespeare's play ""Othello"". It is also designated Uranus X. Desdemona belongs to Portia Group of satellites, which also includes Bianca, Cressida, Juliet, Portia, Rosalind, Cupid, Belinda and Perdita. These satellites have similar orbits and photometric properties. Other than its orbit, radius of 32 km and geometric albedo of 0.08 virtually nothing is known about Desdemona. At"
"Belinda (moon) Belinda ( ) is an inner satellite of the planet Uranus. Belinda was discovered from the images taken by ""Voyager 2"" on 13 January 1986 and was given the temporary designation S/1986 U 5. It is named after the heroine of Alexander Pope's ""The Rape of the Lock"". It is also designated Uranus XIV. Belinda belongs to the Portia group of satellites, which also includes Bianca, Cressida, Desdemona, Portia, Juliet, Cupid, Rosalind and Perdita. These satellites have similar orbits and photometric properties. Other than its orbit, radius of 45 km and geometric albedo of 0.08 virtually nothing is"
"of Earth was located on Euboea and referred to as ""Elarion"". One moon of Jupiter is named Elara. Elara (mythology) In Greek mythology, Elara was a mortal princess, the daughter of King Orchomenus and mother of the giant Tityos by Zeus. Zeus fell in love with Elara and hid her from his wife Hera's jealousy by placing her deep beneath the Earth. This was where she gave birth to Tityos, a giant who is sometimes said to be the son of Gaia, the Earth goddess, for this reason. It is further added that Elara died in labour because of the"
"common use until the mid-20th century. In much of the earlier astronomical literature, Ganymede is referred to instead by its Roman numeral designation, (a system introduced by Galileo), in other words ""the third satellite of Jupiter"". Following the discovery of moons of Saturn, a naming system based on that of Kepler and Marius was used for Jupiter's moons. Ganymede is the only Galilean moon of Jupiter named after a male figure—like Io, Europa, and Callisto, he was a lover of Zeus. Ganymede orbits Jupiter at a distance of 1,070,400 km, third among the Galilean satellites, and completes a revolution every"
"Cressida (moon) Cressida ( , ) is an inner satellite of Uranus. It was discovered from the images taken by ""Voyager 2"" on 9 January 1986, and was given the temporary designation S/1986 U 3. It was named after Cressida, the Trojan daughter of Calchas, a tragic heroine who appears in William Shakespeare's play ""Troilus and Cressida"" (as well as in tales by Geoffrey Chaucer and others). It is also designated Uranus IX. Cressida belongs to the Portia Group of satellites, which includes Bianca, Desdemona, Juliet, Portia, Rosalind, Cupid, Belinda and Perdita. These satellites have similar orbits and photometric properties."
"12 Victoria Victoria (minor planet designation: 12 Victoria) is a large main-belt asteroid. It was discovered by J. R. Hind on September 13, 1850. Victoria is officially named after the Roman goddess of victory, but the name also honours Queen Victoria. The goddess Victoria (Nike for the Greeks) was the daughter of Styx by the Titan Pallas. The coincidence with the name of the then-reigning queen caused quite a controversy at the time, and B. A. Gould, editor of the prestigious Astronomical Journal, adopted the alternate name Clio (now used by 84 Klio), proposed by the discoverer. However, W. C."
"Solar System. Rheasilvia was discovered in Hubble Space Telescope images in 1997, but was not named until the arrival of the ""Dawn"" spacecraft in 2011. It is named after Rhea Silvia, a mythological vestal virgin and mother of the founders of Rome, Romulus and Remus. The crater partially obscures an earlier crater, named Veneneia, that at is almost as large. Rheasilvia has an escarpment along part of its perimeter which rises above the surrounding terrain. The crater floor lies about below the surrounding surface. This basin consists of undulating terrain and a central mound almost in diameter, which rises from"
"mass. It is named after the Greek mythological nymph Callisto, a lover of Zeus who was a daughter of the Arkadian King Lykaon and a hunting companion of the goddess Artemis. The moon does not form part of the orbital resonance that affects three inner Galilean satellites and thus does not experience appreciable tidal heating. Callisto is composed of approximately equal amounts of rock and ices, which makes it the least dense of the Galilean moons. It is one of the most heavily cratered satellites in the Solar System, and one major feature is a basin around 3000 km wide"
"The second series of euro banknotes is known as the Europa Series and bears her likeness in the watermark and hologram. The metal ""europium"", a rare-earth element, was named in 1901 after the continent. The invention of the telescope revealed that the planet Jupiter, clearly visible to the naked eye and known to humanity since prehistoric times, has an attendant family of moons. These were named for male and female lovers of the god and other mythological persons associated with him. The smallest of Jupiter's Galilean moons was named after Europa. Europa (consort of Zeus) In Greek mythology, Europa (;"