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Sarmatians (ancient people) Suess, 1866 Saxonian ~290 ~258 age Permian Europe (obsolete) Saxony: Munier-Chalmas & Lapparent, 1893 Saucesian: 22.0 16.5 age Miocene California Kleinpell, 1938 Scaldisian ~4 ~2.5 age Pliocene Belgium (obsolete) Scaldus, Latin name for the river Scheldt: Dumont, 1850 Scythian: 251 ± 0.2 245 ± 1.5 Epoch Early ...
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 ...
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 ...
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).
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 ...
The Precambrian includes approximately 90% of geologic time. It extends from 4.6 billion years ago to the beginning of the Cambrian Period (about 539 Ma).It includes the first three of the four eons of Earth's prehistory (the Hadean, Archean and Proterozoic) and precedes the Phanerozoic eon.
This is a list of sites where claims for the use of archaeoastronomy have been made, sorted by country.. The International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) and the International Astronomical Union (IAU) jointly published a thematic study on heritage sites of astronomy and archaeoastronomy to be used as a guide to UNESCO in its evaluation of the cultural importance of archaeoastronomical ...
France launches its first satellite, Asterix, from a rocket Diamant, becoming the world's third space power. France Diamant: 15 December 1965: First orbital rendezvous (parallel flight, no docking). USA (NASA) Gemini 6A/Gemini 7: 3 February 1966: First soft landing on another world (the Moon). First photos from another world. USSR Luna 9 [19] 1 ...