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Borasisi and Pabu
** Borasisi, the Sun, held Pabu, the Moon, in his arms and hoped that Pabu would bear him a fiery child.

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Pabu and .
The red panda Futa inspired the character of Pabu, an animal companion in the animated U. S. TV series The Legend of Korra.
But poor Pabu gave birth to children that were cold, that did not burn ... Then poor Pabu herself was cast away, and she went to live with her favorite child, which was Earth.
Tudwal later emigrated to Brittany, settling in Lan Pabu with 72 followers, where he established a large monastery under the patronage of his cousin, King Deroch of Domnonée.
Baker came back for the sequel to The Last Airbender The Legend of Korra in 2012 as animals Naga, Pabu, Oogi, council member Tarrlok, and Tenzin's brother Bumi.

Sun and Moon
However, the book On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon, which has long been ascribed to Aristarchus, says that he calculated the distance to the sun to be between 18 and 20 times the distance to the Moon, whereas the true ratio is about 389. 174.
Depending on the distance Van Helden assumes Aristarchus used for the distance to the Moon, his calculated distance to the Sun would fall between 380 and 1, 520 Earth radii.
In Gnostic cosmology, the 7 letters spelling its name represent each of the 7 classic planets — Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.
* 1835 – The New York Sun perpetrates the Great Moon Hoax.
Once on course towards the Moon, the crew put the spacecraft into a rotisserie " barbecue " mode in which the craft rotated along its long axis three times per hour to ensure even heat distribution about the spacecraft from the Sun.
Mattingly alleviated this by realigning the guidance system using the Sun and Moon.
Western astrology is founded on the movements and relative positions of celestial bodies such as the Sun, Moon, planets, which are analyzed by their movement through signs of the zodiac ( spatial divisions of the ecliptic ) and by their aspects ( angles ) relative to one another.
In his Rudolphine Tables ( 1627 ), Johannes Kepler used a prototype of year zero which he labeled Christi ( Christ ) between years labeled Ante Christum ( Before Christ ) and Post Christum ( After Christ ) on the mean motion tables for the Sun, Moon, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus and Mercury.
On the Reckoning of Time ( De temporum ratione ) included an introduction to the traditional ancient and medieval view of the cosmos, including an explanation of how the spherical earth influenced the changing length of daylight, of how the seasonal motion of the Sun and Moon influenced the changing appearance of the New Moon at evening twilight, and a quantitative relation between the changes of the Tides at a given place and the daily motion of the moon.
Since the focus of his book was calculation, Bede gave instructions for computing the date of Easter and the related time of the Easter Full Moon, for calculating the motion of the Sun and Moon through the zodiac, and for many other calculations related to the calendar.
Also, the Moon represents Yin ( 陰 ), and the Sun 太陽 represents Yang ( 陽 ).
Clement suggests that at first, men mistakenly believed the Sun, the Moon and other heavenly bodies to be gods.
Sun, Moon and Very Large Telescope | Telescopes above the Desert.
Sun Myung Moon, founder of the Unification Church ( many of whose members were targets of deprogramming ) issued this statement in 1983:
The Moon has disappeared and the Sun is in danger of burning out at any time, often flickering as if about to go out, before shining again.
The orientation of the Earth's axis and equator are not fixed in space, but rotate about the poles of the ecliptic with a period of about 26, 000 years, a process known as lunisolar precession, as it is due mostly to the gravitational effect of the Moon and Sun on the Earth's equatorial bulge.
Periodic motions of the Moon and apparent periodic motions of the Sun ( actually of the Earth in its orbit ) cause short-term small-amplitude periodic oscillations of the axis of the Earth, and hence the celestial equator, known as nutation.
* The umbra, within which the Moon completely covers the Sun ( more precisely, its photosphere ).
* The antumbra, extending beyond the tip of the umbra, within which the Moon is completely in front of the Sun but too small to completely cover it.
* The penumbra, within which the Moon is only partially in front of the Sun.
This is because Earth's apparent diameter from the viewpoint of the Moon is nearly 4 times that of the Sun.
An eclipse involving the Sun, Earth and Moon can occur only when they are nearly in a straight line, allowing one to be hidden behind another, viewed from the third.

Sun and ;
Victory Sun, p, 2:04 has trained in 2:24 ; ;
The Yang, or male principle, was the source of light, heat, and dynamic vitality, associated with the Sun ; ;
* Another group is the School of the Military that studied strategy and the philosophy of war ; Sunzi and Sun Bin were influential leaders.
An equivalent definition is the radius of an unperturbed circular Newtonian orbit about the Sun of a particle having infinitesimal mass, moving with an angular frequency of radians per day ; or that length such that, when used to describe the positions of the objects in the Solar System, the heliocentric gravitational constant ( the product GM < sub >☉</ sub >) is equal to ()< sup > 2 </ sup > AU < sup > 3 </ sup >/ d < sup > 2 </ sup >.
It is at least 110 times visually more luminous than the Sun, but this underestimates its strength as much of the " light " it gives off is in the infrared ; total ( bolometric ) power output is about 180 times that of the Sun.
It has a radius of approximately 883 times that of the Sun ; if it were placed in the center of our solar system, its outer surface would lie between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
For approximately two to three weeks on either side of November 30, Antares is not visible in the night sky, because it is near conjunction with the Sun ; this period of invisibility is longer in the Northern Hemisphere than in the Southern Hemisphere, since the star's declination is significantly south of the celestial equator.
In 2006 and 2007, J. D. Monnier and his coworkers produced an image of Altair's surface from 2006 infrared observations made with the MIRC instrument on the CHARA array interferometer ; this was the first time the surface of any main-sequence star, apart from the Sun, had been imaged.
His two Stanford teams went 9 – 3 in 1977 with a win in the Sun Bowl, and 8 – 4 in 1978 with a win in the Bluebonnet Bowl ; his notable players at Stanford included quarterbacks Guy Benjamin and Steve Dils, wide receivers James Lofton and Ken Margerum, and running back Darrin Nelson.
* A solar calendar is based on perceived seasonal changes synchronized to the apparent motion of the Sun ; an example is the Persian calendar.
Alpha Centauri, one of the closest stars to the Sun, has a high proper motion ; it will be a mere half-degree from Beta Centauri in approximately 4000 years.
At this time Sun remained largely sidelined ; and, without arms or money, was soon expelled from Guangzhou and exiled again to Shanghai.
At Moscow, Sun Yat-sen University Portraits of Chiang were hung on the walls ; and, in the Soviet May Day Parades that year, Chiang's portrait was to be carried along with the portraits of Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, and other socialist leaders.
The F-corona ( F for Fraunhofer ) is created by sunlight bouncing off dust particles, and is observable because its light contains the Fraunhofer absorption lines that are seen in raw sunlight ; the F-corona extends to very high elongation angles from the Sun, where it is called the zodiacal light.
Creation required a Mac ; playback was possible on Macs, PCs, and Sun Sparcstations.
* 1911 – Sun Yat-sen becomes the provisional President of the Republic of China ; he formally takes office on January 1, 1912.
Due to the movement of the Earth around the Earth-Moon barycenter, the apparent path of the Sun wobbles slightly, with a period of about one month ; due to perturbations by the other planets of the Solar System, the Earth-Moon barycenter wobbles slightly around a mean position in a complex fashion.
This small difference in the Sun's position against the stars causes any particular spot on the Earth's surface to catch up with ( and stand directly north or south of ) the Sun about 4 minutes later each day than it would if the Earth did not orbit ; our day is 24 hours long rather than the approximately 23 hour 56 minute sidereal day.
In a 1984 interview Bill Joy explained that, at Sun, he used an early desktop publishing program, called Interleaf ;
Other uses of Forth include the Open Firmware boot ROMs used by Apple, IBM, Sun, and OLPC XO-1 ; and the FICL-based first stage boot controller of the FreeBSD operating system.
On February 29, the Marlins were recognized on Sports Illustrated's magazine for the 5th time ( 11 / 3 / 1997, Edgar Renteria who had a walk-off hit in Game 7 of the World Series ; 5 / 25 / 1998, Mike Piazza after his trade from the Dodgers ; 11 / 3 / 2003 ; Josh Beckett, after winning World Series MVP and 3 / 12 / 07 Dontrelle Willis, chronicling global warming with Willis in a flooded Sun Life Stadium.

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