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Chiron
[ kahy-ron ]
noun
- Classical Mythology. a wise and beneficent centaur, teacher of Achilles, Asclepius, and others.
- Astronomy. an asteroid located between Saturn and Uranus, about 100 miles (160 km) in diameter: discovered in 1977.
Chiron
/ -r蓹n; 藞ka瑟r蓲n /
noun
- Greek myth a wise and kind centaur who taught many great heroes in their youth, including Achilles, Actaeon, and Jason
- a minor planet, discovered by Charles Kowal in 1977, revolving round the sun between the orbits of Saturn and Uranus
Chiron
- A large cometlike body with an orbit mostly between Saturn and Uranus. Discovered in 1977, Chiron was originally identified as an asteroid, but it has since been reclassified as a Centaur. Like a comet, Chiron has been observed to display a nebulous coma in its closest approach to the Sun, but at approximately 200 km (124 mi) in diameter it is far larger than any other known comet.
- See more at Centaur
Example Sentences
A spokesman for the company at the time said the bombings had followed a long, escalating series of 鈥渉arassment incidents鈥 on the part of animal rights activists against Chiron executives that began that May.
Workers at Lego have created a complete copy of the Bugatti Chiron sports car.
Like Chiron in 鈥淢oonlight,鈥 McCraney grew up in the rough and tumble of Miami鈥檚 Liberty City neighborhood, a queer Black youth struggling to survive with his dignity intact.
Stewart Chiron, a cruise industry expert referenced by USA Today, said it is 鈥渆xtraordinarily rare鈥 for ships to hit icebergs.
鈥淪ome people really would sit and talk in groups about the candidates and voting,鈥 Chiron said.
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