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| | Small Magellanic Cloud - definition of Small Magellanic Cloud in Encyclopedia |
 | | It forms a pair with the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), which is positioned a further 20 degrees to the east. | | | The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) —also known as NGC 292— is an irregular galaxy, sometimes classified as a dwarf galaxy, in orbit around the Milky Way Galaxy. | | | Embed a dictionary search in your own web page |
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| | Fernando de Magellan (1480-1521) |
| | Also, asteroid (4055) Magellan was named to his honor; this one had been discovered on February 24, 1985 at Palomar Observatory by E.F. Helin and provisionally designated 1985 DO2; a later independent observation was 1988 OG. | | | Fernando de Magellan was born 1480 in Saborosa, Portugal. | | | Honors include naming a Venus Orbiter spacecraft after him; the Magellan mission was performed from May 4, 1989 (launch) to October 11, 1994 (end up in Venus' atmosphere), and was highly successful in mapping Venus and obtaining a lot of informations on this planet. |
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http://www.seds.org/messier/xtra/Bios/magellan.html
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| | Small Magellanic Cloud |
| | The SMC is important historically as the location in which Henrietta Leavitt discovered the period-luminosity relation of Cepheid variables. | | | The SMC is about 10,000 light-years in diameter, has a visible mass of about one-fiftieth that of the Milky Way, and, at a distance of some 210,000 light-years, is the third-nearest external galaxy after the Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). | | | The lesser of the two Magellanic Clouds – irregular galaxies that are satellites of our own Milky Way Galaxy. |
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http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/S/SMC.html
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