Eridanus
Americannoun
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Eridani
genitive
noun
Etymology
Origin of Eridanus
from Greek Eridanos river in Italy (sometimes identified with the Po) into which, according to legend, Phaëthon fell
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The two planets were discovered orbiting a star obliquely named LP 890-9, which is in the constellation Eridanus, about 105 lightyears from where you're reading this.
From Salon ● Sep. 10, 2022
In 1960, the astronomer Frank Drake periodically pointed an 85-foot radio telescope at two nearby Sun-like stars, Tau Ceti and Epsilon Eridanus, hoping to tune in to any transmissions.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 20, 2015
There they were turned into poplar trees, on the bank of the Eridanus,
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
The mysterious river Eridanus, which no mortal eyes have ever seen, received him and put out the flames and cooled the body.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
Nor do we praise the Thracians who to this day, in honour of Orpheus, mark their wives;844 nor the barbarians on the banks of the Eridanus who, they say, wear mourning for Phäethon.
From Plutarch's Morals by Arthur Richard Shilleto
For the three stars with detected astrospheres, named 70 Ophiuchi, epsilon Eridani, and 61 Cygni, the researchers estimated their mass loss rates to be 66.5±11.1, 15.6±4.4, and 9.6±4.1 times the solar mass loss rate, respectively.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 12, 2024
Around 10 years later, the smallest directly imaged planet to date was discovered: 51 Eridani b, only two times the size of Jupiter.
From Scientific American ● May 11, 2023
In what he called Project Ozma, after the Wizard of Oz, Dr. Drake alternately pointed the telescope at a pair of sunlike stars, Tau Ceti and Epsilon Eridani, each about 11 light-years from Earth.
From New York Times ● Sep. 5, 2022
A good example of a typical white dwarf is the nearby star 40 Eridani B. Its surface temperature is a relatively hot 12,000 K, but its luminosity is only 1/275 LSun.
From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016
Its brightest star, α Fornacis, is identical with 12 Eridani.
From Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies by J. Ellard Gore
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