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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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    asteroid Pallas (formally 2 Pallas), which was itself named after the epithet of the Greek goddess Athena, acquired by her when she slew Pallas. Palladium...
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    identified by Kiyotsugu Hirayama in 1928. 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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    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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    Hygiea 100 Hekate 1000 Piazzia 10000 Myriostos 100000 Astronautica 2 x Powers of 10 2 Pallas 20 Massalia 200 Dynamene 2000 Herschel 20000 Varuna (KBO) 200000...
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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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    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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