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2608 Seneca, provisional designation 1978 DA, is a stony asteroid and sub-kilometer near-Earth object of the Amor group, approximately 0.9 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 17 February 1978, by German astronomer Hans-Emil Schuster at ESO 's La Silla Observatory in northern Chile, and named after Roman philosopher Seneca .
The obelisks for the four inner planets are all contained within the commons area stretching north towards Seneca Street. Mercury is situated to scale about 12.7 yards (11.6 meters) away from the Sun, Venus another 10 yards (9.1 meters) away, Earth another 9.3 yards (8.5 meters) away, and Mars another 17.1 yards (15.6 meters) away.
Sedna (minor-planet designation: 90377 Sedna) is a dwarf planet in the outermost reaches of the Solar System, orbiting the Sun beyond the orbit of Neptune.Discovered in 2003, the planetoid's surface is one of the reddest known among Solar System bodies.
Planet used as a stepping-stone for the New Republic to retake Coruscant. [147] Byss: Dark Empire: 1991 Comics Planet chosen as the base of operations for a clone of Emperor Palpatine. Located very close to the center of the galaxy. It is destroyed by the Dark Empire's weapon, the Galaxy Gun. Included in at least one canon map. [148] [149 ...
The Seneca Effect: Why Growth is Slow But Collapse is Rapid (2 ed.). Springer. ISBN 978-3319861036. Bardi, Ugo (2014). Extracted: How the quest for mineral wealth is plundering the planet. Chelsea Green Publishing. ISBN 978-1603585415. Bardi, Ugo (2005). The mineral economy: a model for the shape of oil production curves (PDF).
Pluto, a dwarf planet, has five moons. Its largest moon Charon, named after the ferryman who took souls across the River Styx, is more than half as large as Pluto itself, and large enough to orbit a point outside Pluto's surface. In effect, each orbits the other, forming a binary system informally referred to as a double-dwarf-planet.
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[1] [2] Its common names include Seneca snakeroot, [3] senega snakeroot, senegaroot, [2] rattlesnake root, and mountain flax. [4] Its genus name honors the Seneca people , a Native American group who used the plant to treat snakebite .