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A centaur-like half-human, half-equine creature called Polkan appeared in Russian folk art and lubok prints of the 17th–19th centuries. Polkan is originally based on Pulicane , a half-dog from Andrea da Barberino 's poem I Reali di Francia , which was once popular in the Slavonic world in prosaic translations.
In planetary astronomy, a centaur is a small Solar System body that orbits the Sun between Jupiter and Neptune and crosses the orbits of one or more of the giant planets. . Centaurs generally have unstable orbits because of this; almost all their orbits have dynamic lifetimes of only a few million years, [1] but there is one known centaur, 514107 Kaʻepaokaʻawela, which may be in a stable ...
An illustration of the Centaurus and Lupus constellation . In Greek mythology, Centaurus (Ancient Greek: Κένταυρος, romanized: Kentauros) is the son of Apollo and Stilbe, daughter of the river-god Peneius and the naiad Creusa.
A dedicated column for each of these sources inidcates whether an object is considered to be a centaur ( ) or not ( ). [b] The table highlights red and grey centaurs with a distinct background color (see legend). [2] [c] Legend Grey centaur (52 objs.) Red centaur (32 objs.) Centaur w/o color indices (439 objs.)
Centaurus / s ɛ n ˈ t ɔːr ə s,-ˈ t ɑːr-/ is a bright constellation in the southern sky.One of the largest constellations, Centaurus was included among the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd-century astronomer Ptolemy, and it remains one of the 88 modern constellations.
Nessus is the name of the Centaur (minor planet) setting of a playable location in the 2017 video game Destiny 2. It is also mentioned in a grimoire card in the first game of the series , where Cayde-6 comes across a mention of the planetoid's erratic motions while searching the Tower's database, leading him to enter the queries "did we get ...
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The Centaur is a novel by John Updike, published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1963. It won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. Portions of the novel first appeared in Esquire and The New Yorker. [1] [2] The French translation of the novel won the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger (Best Foreign Book Prize). [3]