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This is a list of paleocontinents, significant landmasses that have been proposed to exist in the geological past. The degree of certainty to which the identified landmasses can be regarded as independent entities reduces as geologists look further back in time. The list includes cratons, supercratons, microcontinents, continents and ...
Former planets of the Solar System Former planet Discovery Removal Current status Notes The Morning Star [NB 1]: Antiquity: Antiquity: Aspects of Venus "Phosphorus", the Morning Star of Greek antiquity (Eosphorus, the Dawn-Bringer; called "Lucifer" by the Romans), and "Hesperus", the Evening Star (called "Vesper" by the Romans), were later identified as a single planet, Venus (Aphrodite).
This list may not reflect recent changes. List of proper names of exoplanets * Exoplanet naming convention; 0–9. 14 Andromedae b; 41 Lyncis b; 42 Draconis b;
Native name of Bhutan: HD 73534 (Gakyid) 1.15 1800 3.15 radial vel. 2009 316.3 1.29 4952 2019 NameExoWorlds Bhutan Yvaga "paradise" in the Guarani language: HD 63765 (Tapecue) 0.64 358 0.949 radial vel. 2009 106 0.865 5432 2019 NameExoWorlds Bolivia Naron: Ancient Celtic name for the Neretva river in the Balkans HD 206610 (Bosona) 2.2 610 1.68 ...
Evidence of possibly the oldest forms of life on Earth has been found in hydrothermal vent precipitates. [1]The earliest known life forms on Earth may be as old as 4.1 billion years (or Ga) according to biologically fractionated graphite inside a single zircon grain in the Jack Hills range of Australia. [2]
The name Africa was originally used by the ancient Romans to refer to the northern part of the continent that corresponds to modern-day Tunisia. There are many theories regarding its origin. Africa terra means "land of the Afri" (plural, or "Afer" singular), referring to the Afri tribe, who dwelt in Northern Africa around the area of Carthage.
Slide Mountain Ocean, the Mesozoic ocean between the ancient Intermontane Islands (that is, Wrangellia) and North America; South Anuyi Ocean, Mesozoic ocean related to the formation of the Arctic Ocean; Tethys Ocean, the ocean between the ancient continents of Gondwana and Laurasia; Thalassa Ocean, the eastern part of the early Mesozoic ...
For instance, for a large portion of names ending in -s, the oblique stem and therefore the English adjective changes the -s to a -d, -t, or -r, as in Mars–Martian, Pallas–Palladian and Ceres–Cererian; [note 1] occasionally an -n has been lost historically from the nominative form, and reappears in the oblique and therefore in the English ...