Alcimede sent her son to the centaur Chiron for education, for fear that Pelias would kill him — she claimed that she had been having an affair with him all along.

Chiron had told Jason that without the aid of Orpheus, the Argonauts would never be able to pass the Sirens — the same Sirens encountered by Odysseus in Homer's epic poem the Odyssey.

Most Puppeteers give themselves the names of centaurs and other figures in Greek mythology, such as Nessus, Nike and Chiron — at least when called upon to deal with humans.

In the 1952 Le Mans race, when only 17 of the 58 starters finished, the entry driven by Leslie Johnson — a driver with the flair of Nuvolari, said Louis Chiron — and motoring journalist Tommy Wisdom took third overall behind two factory-entered Mercedes-Benz 300SLs ; also first in class, ahead of Chinetti's Ferrari, and second in the Rudge-Whitworth Cup for the best performance over two consecutive years.

Computer game Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri and its expansion Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire are set on the planet Chiron in the Alpha Centauri system where all indigenous life appears to behave in accordance with the Gaia philosophy.

* Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri The United Nations Starship Unity reaches the planet Chiron in the Alpha Centauri System in 2101 ; AD dates are kept, but called " Mission Years " ( M. Y.

* On September 14, according to Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, the United Nations Starship Unity launches from the remnants of Earth to the Alpha Centauri System and the planet Chiron.

Chiron was even claimed as the tenth planet by the press.

* Trans-Jovian minor planets crossing or approaching the orbit of a giant planet but not in a stabilizing resonance are named for centaurs ( such as 2060 Chiron ).

They have dubbed the planet Chiron, after the mythological centaur.

Oddly, in April 1861, Hermann Goldschmidt had also believed that he had discovered a new satellite of Saturn between Titan and Hyperion, which he called Chiron.

* In the game Airforce Delta Strike a large Space Elevator called the Chiron Lift is used to send supplies out into outer space.

In 1988, Chiron formed a joint venture company, called Mimesys Inc., with Johnson & Johnson and the Warner-Lambert Company, to develop the next generation of biotech drugs.

In Greek mythology, Chiron ( also Cheiron or Kheiron ; " hand ") was held to be the superlative centaur among his brethren.

Nevertheless, Georges Philippe had attracted sufficient attention to be offered a factory drive alongside Monegasque star Louis Chiron.

* In the computer game Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri The United Nations Starship Unity's colony pods holding the seven factions of the game make Planetfall on Chiron, in the Alpha Centauri system.

Apollo rescued the baby and gave it to the centaur Chiron to raise.

Like Achilles in a later generation, he was trained by the centaur Chiron.

In an embroidered extension of the myth, the hounds were so upset with their master's death, that Chiron made a statue so lifelike that the hounds thought it was Actaeon.

* 1899 – Louis Chiron, Monegasque race car driver ( d. 1979 )

Known as the ' bulwark of the Mycenaeans ', he was trained by the centaur Chiron ( who had trained his father, Telamon, and Achilles ' father Peleus ), at the same time as Achilles.

According to the Roman poet Ovid ( Fasti v. 379 ), the constellation honors the centaur Chiron, who was tutor to many of the earlier Greek heroes including Heracles ( Hercules ), Theseus, and Jason, the leader of the Argonauts.

However, most authorities consider Sagittarius to be the civilized Chiron, while Centaurus represents a more uncouth member of the species.

The legend associated with Chiron says that he was accidentally poisoned with an arrow shot by Hercules, and was subsequently placed in the heavens.

This half-human and half-animal composition has led many writers to treat them as liminal beings, caught between the two natures, embodied in contrasted myths, both as the embodiment of untamed nature, as in their battle with the Lapiths, or conversely as teachers, like Chiron.

Noghès also gained support for his plans from Monegasque Louis Chiron, a top-level driver in European Grand Prix racing.

Chiron thought that the topography of the location would be well suited to setting up a race track.

Chiron was unable to compete, having a prior commitment to compete in the Indianapolis 500 on the same day.

However, Chiron did compete the following year, when he was beaten by René Dreyfus and his Bugatti and finished second, and took victory in the 1931 race driving a Bugatti.

The race became a round of the new European Championship in 1936, when stormy weather and a broken oil line led to a series of crashes, eliminating the Mercedes-Benzes of Chiron, Fagioli, and von Brauchitsch, as well as Bernd Rosemeyer's Typ C for newcomer Auto Union ; Rudolf Caracciola, proving the truth of his nickname, Regenmeister ( Rainmaster ), went on to win.

* Precepts of Chiron, a didactic work that presented the teaching of Chiron as delivered to the young Achilles.

After the taunting, Virgil and Dante pass quickly by to the centaurs, ( Nessus, Chiron, Pholus, and Nessus ) who guard the Flegetonte, " river of blood ", to continue through the seventh Circle.

The fastest time ever around the full Gesamtstrecke was by Louis Chiron, at an average speed of 112. 31 km / h ( 72 mph ) in his Bugatti.

Pseudo-Apollodorus moreover clarifies a cryptic statement ( 1026 – 29 ) made by Hermes in Prometheus Bound, identifying the centaur Chiron as the one who would take on Prometheus ' suffering and die in his place.

* Denys Ferrando-Durfort, Lat Dior le résistant, Paris: Chiron, 1989.

When the angular velocity of this co-rotating frame is not constant, that is, for non-circular orbits, other fictitious forces — the Coriolis force and the Euler force — will arise, but can be ignored since they will cancel each other, yielding a net zero acceleration transverse to the moving radial vector, as required by the starting assumption that the vector co-rotates with the planet.

# if you could dramatically improve how we do that, you'd be boosting every effort on the planet to solve important problems — the sooner the better ; and

It has been estimated that about half of the Earth's mature tropical forests — between 7. 5 million and 8 million km < sup > 2 </ sup > ( 2. 9 million to 3 million sq mi ) of the original 15 million to 16 million km < sup > 2 </ sup > ( 5. 8 million to 6. 2 million sq mi ) that until 1947 covered the planet — have now been destroyed.

" By the end of the following year he had taken up the ukelele and tea-chest bass and begun to participate in skiffle sessions with friends, and had started to play the piano ; meanwhile his stage presentation of numbers by both Presley and Chuck Berry — complete with gyrations in tribute to the original artists — to his local Wolf Cub group was described as " mesmerizing ... like someone from another planet.

These structures are somewhat analogous to high-and low-pressure cells in Earth's atmosphere, but they have a very different structure — latitudinal bands that circle the entire planet, as opposed to small confined cells of pressure.

The Morning Star is, in fact, identical to the Evening Star — both are the planet Venus.

By ordering the solids correctly — octahedron, icosahedron, dodecahedron, tetrahedron, cube — Kepler found that the spheres could be placed at intervals corresponding ( within the accuracy limits of available astronomical observations ) to the relative sizes of each planet ’ s path, assuming the planets circle the Sun.

Kryptonite is a fictional material from the Superman mythos — the ore form of a radioactive element from Superman's home planet of Krypton.

Still, in the book Protector ( 1973 ), the Martians are brutally exterminated by a large water asteroid deliberately hurled at the planet, raising the water content in the atmosphere to a degree deadly to them, by Jack Brennan, a human who had turned into a Pak Protector — a creature completely devoted to protecting its descendants, or sometimes his entire species, and is unreasonably xenophobic towards anybody else.

Each planet is a kind of petri dish in which a particular human culture — derived to some extent from a culture known historically on Earth — thrives and changes.

* In the 2008 video game LittleBigPlanet, the titular planet is described in terms similar to a noosphere — that is, it is the physical manifestation of idle human thoughts.

The Northern Hemisphere is the half of a planet that is north of its equator — the word hemisphere literally means “ half sphere ”.

The planet's low density ( about 40 % that of Earth ) suggests that the planet may have a substantial component of low-density gas — possibly hydrogen or steam.

At a specific velocity called escape velocity, again dependent on the firing height and mass of the planet, an open orbit such as ( E ) results — a parabolic trajectory.

Perhaps the best known was the planet of The Man Who Counts — Anderson adjusted its size and composition so that humans could live in the open air but flying intelligent aliens could evolve, and he explored consequences of these adjustments.

Picard and Data realize that Soran is altering the path of the ribbon by collapsing stars, and determine that Soran will attempt to reenter the Nexus on Veridian III by destroying its star — and, by extension, a heavily-populated planet in the system.

Dust would collect in orbits that have mean-motion resonances with this planet — where their orbital periods form integer fractions with the period of the planet — producing the resulting clumpiness.