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    Pallas (minor-planet designation: 2 Pallas) is the third-largest asteroid in the Solar System by volume and mass. It is the second asteroid to have been...
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  • up Pallas or pallas in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pallas may refer to: 2 Pallas asteroid Pallas family, a group of asteroids that includes 2 Pallas...
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    comets, and in 1802 and 1807, discovered the second and the fourth asteroids Pallas and Vesta. Olbers was born in Arbergen, Germany, today part of Bremen, and...
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  • Hyginus says that Pallas, whom he calls "the giant", also fathered with Styx: Scylla, Fontus ("Fountains") and Lacus ("Lakes"). Pallas was sometimes regarded...
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    experiences a wide range of temperatures. The Pallas's cat was first described in 1776 by Peter Simon Pallas, who observed it in the vicinity of Lake Baikal...
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    Although they did not discover Ceres, they later found the asteroids 2 Pallas, 3 Juno and 4 Vesta. One of the astronomers selected for the search was...
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    Athena (redirect from Athena Pallas)
    young woman". On this topic, Walter Burkert says "she is the Pallas of Athens, Pallas Athenaie, just as Hera of Argos is Here Argeie." In later times...
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    inclinations in the intermediate asteroid belt. The namesake of the family is 2 Pallas, an extremely large asteroid with a mean diameter of about 512 km. The...
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    discovered in 1906, 588 Achilles, and the current total is over 6,000. 1 Ceres 2 Pallas 3 Juno 4 Vesta 5 Astraea 6 Hebe 7 Iris 8 Flora 9 Metis 10 Hygiea 12 Victoria...
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    between 1767 and 1810. Peter Simon Pallas was born in Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia, the son of Professor of Surgery Simon Pallas. He studied with private tutors...
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