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MC Championship (MCC) is a Minecraft tournament organised by YouTuber Scott Major (known online as Smajor1995) and Minecraft collective Noxcrew. Ten teams of four compete in a series of Minecraft minigames. The tournament began its first season on November 17, 2019. Its fourth and current season began on May 4, 2024.
Meanings of minor-planet names: 39001–40000. As minor planet discoveries are confirmed, they are given a permanent number by the IAU 's Minor Planet Center (MPC), and the discoverers can then submit names for them, following the IAU's naming conventions. The list below concerns those minor planets in the specified number-range that have ...
As minor planet discoveries are confirmed, they are given a permanent number by the IAU's Minor Planet Center (MPC), and the discoverers can then submit names for them, following the IAU's naming conventions. The list below concerns those minor planets in the specified number-range that have received names, and explains the meanings of those names.
Extrasolar planets in fiction. Artist's impression of a planet in a far-off system. Planets outside of the Solar System have appeared in fiction since at least the 1850s, long before the first real ones were discovered in the 1990s. Most of these fictional planets do not differ significantly from the Earth, and serve only as settings for the ...
A vast disc of land resting on four elephants which stand on a giant turtle. Setting of the Discworld series. The Colour of Magic. 1983. N V M G T. Draenor (Outland) Blizzard Entertainment. Homeworld of the orcs and ogres in the Warcraft franchise. Connected to Azeroth via the dark portal.
Planetary nomenclature. Planetary nomenclature, like terrestrial nomenclature, is a system of uniquely identifying features on the surface of a planet or natural satellite so that the features can be easily located, described, and discussed. [1] Since the invention of the telescope, astronomers have given names to the surface features they have ...
25.1. 2. First extrasolar planet discovered by indirect imaging (visible light) Found in 2020 to be a debris cloud from a collision of asteroids rather than a planet. 2015 NameExoWorlds. Tadmor. Ancient Palmyrene and modern Arabic name for Palmyra.
Astronomical naming conventions. Appearance. In ancient times, only the Sun and Moon, a few stars, and the most easily visible planets had names. Over the last few hundred years, the number of identified astronomical objects has risen from hundreds to over a billion, and more are discovered every year. Astronomers need to be able to assign ...