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Maui Patera
Maui Patera is a patera (planetary nomenclature), patera, or a complex crater with scalloped edges, on Jupiter's moon Io (moon), Io. It is about 38 kilometers in diameter and is located at . It is named after Māui (Hawaiian mythology), Māui, a Hawaiian demigod that sought fire from Mafuike. Its name was approved by the International Astronomical Union in 1979. It is located southwest of the eruptive center Maui (volcano), Maui, south of Euxine Mons, and southwest of the volcano Amirani (volcano), Amirani. Due east are Monan Patera, Monan Mons, and Ah Peku Patera.''NASA World Wind'' 1.4. NASA Ames Research Center, 2007. References {{Io Volcanoes of Io (moon) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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I, or i, is the ninth Letter (alphabet), letter and the third vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the English alphabet, modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is English alphabet#Letter names, ''i'' (pronounced ), plural ''English alphabet#Letter names, ies''. History In the Phoenician alphabet, the letter may have originated in a Egyptian hieroglyphs, hieroglyph for an arm that represented a voiced pharyngeal fricative () in Egyptian language, Egyptian, but was reassigned to (as in English "yes") by Semites, because their word for "arm" began with that sound. This letter could also be used to represent , the close front unrounded vowel, mainly in foreign words. The Ancient Greeks, Greeks adopted a form of this Phoenician alphabet, Phoenician ''yodh'' as their letter ''iota'' () to represent , the same as in the Old Italic alphabet. In Latin (as in Modern Greek), it was also used to repr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
