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Menippe

American  
[muh-nip-ee] / məˈnɪp i /

noun

Classical Mythology.

  1. a daughter of Orion who, with her sister Metioche, offered herself as a sacrifice to end a plague in Boeotia.

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Why, only the other day I was figuring it out that a man could easily jump a thousand feet high from the surface of Menippe, and now here I actually am on Menippe.

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Soon Menippe dwindled to a point, and I saw her inhospitable inhabitant no more.

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The direction of my expulsion from Menippe had been such that I had fallen into an orbit that would have carried me around the sun without passing very close to the solar body.

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On Menippe I knew "g" must equal about one twentieth of a foot, and "r" 31,680 feet.

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