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Rigel (other)
Rigel is a blue supergiant star in the Orion constellation, also known as Beta Orionis. Rigel may also refer to: * Rigel (comics), a character in a series published by Panini Comics * Rigel (dog), a Newfoundland dog said to have helped rescue survivors from the sinking of the ''Titanic'' * Rigel (microprocessor), a VAX microprocessor chip set developed and fabricated by Digital Equipment Corporation * Rigel (rocket), an Argentinian sounding rocket * MS ''Rigel'', a Norwegian and German vessel * USS ''Rigel'' (AD-13), a ship built in 1918 as ''Edgecombe'' * USS ''Rigel'' (AF-58), a ship laid down in 1954 * SSM-N-6 Rigel, a proposed cruise missile system * ''Rigel'', a composition for trumpet and piano by Hale A. VanderCook * Rigel, a genus of megalyrid wasps from Chile * Rigel, a fictional nation in ''Fire Emblem Gaiden is a tactical role-playing game developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for the Famicom. Released in March 1992, it is the second inst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rigel
Rigel is a blue supergiant star in the constellation of Orion. It has the Bayer designation β Orionis, which is Latinized to Beta Orionis and abbreviated Beta Ori or β Ori. Rigel is the brightest and most massive componentand the eponymof a star system of at least four stars that appear as a single blue-white point of light to the naked eye. This system is located at a distance of approximately from the Sun. A star of spectral type B8Ia, Rigel is calculated to be anywhere from 61,500 to 363,000 times as luminous as the Sun, and 18 to 24 times as massive, depending on the method and assumptions used. Its radius is more than seventy times that of the Sun, and its surface temperature is . Due to its stellar wind, Rigel's mass-loss is estimated to be ten million times that of the Sun. With an estimated age of seven to nine million years, Rigel has exhausted its core hydrogen fuel, expanded, and cooled to become a supergiant. It is expected to end its life a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rigel (comics)
''Rigel'' is a goth-dark comicbook character, her adventures take place in our contemporary world, she is created by Elena de' Grimani. Publication history After a first series of three volumes self-produced by the author from '99 to 2001 that did debut at Lucca Comics, Rigel becomes a small "publishing phenomenon", and in fact just two years after its debut, goes to publication with Panini Comics, first with the miniseries "Rigel Interlunium" that will be sold out and reprinted several times (the last in 2012 in deluxe-variant version) and then continue with the monographic Anedonia, giving life to a new narrative arc of the character. Rigel Interlunium is not in continuity with self-production. The titles of the three self-produced volumes are: * ''Rigel – La Settima Congrega'' * ''Rigel – Il requiem dell'unicorno'' * ''Rigel – Creature dell'Altrove'' The self-production is now sold out since a long time, and in the new chapters produced by Panini Comics (Rigel Int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rigel (dog)
Rigel was a large black Newfoundland dog who was said to have saved some of the survivors of the sinking of the RMS ''Titanic''. One account of the story was published in the ''New York Herald'', April 21, 1912, the other was the book ''Sinking of the Titanic and Great sea disasters'' by Logan Marshall, published in 1912. Story According to the narrative, Rigel was said to have been owned by William McMaster Murdoch, the First Officer of the . Murdoch died in the sinking, but Rigel swam away, and stayed close to one of the lifeboats ( Boat #4, in some accounts). When arrived on the scene looking for survivors, Rigel began to bark. The lifeboat had drifted under the bows of the ''Carpathia'', and was at risk of being run down, but the people in the boat were too exhausted to make themselves heard. Rigel's barks alerted Captain Arthur Rostron, who ordered the engines stopped and began the search for survivors. Everyone in the lifeboat was saved, and Rigel was pulled from the ic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rigel (microprocessor)
Rigel was a microprocessor chip set developed and fabricated by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) that implemented the VAX instruction set architecture (ISA). It was introduced on 11 July 1989 with the introduction of the VAX 6000 Model 400, the first system to feature the chip set. Rigel was also used in the VAX 4000 Model 300 and VAXstation 3100 Model 76. Production Rigel CPUs were rated at 35 to 43 MHz. The Rigel chipset consisted of several devices: *REX520 central processing unit (also known as the DC520 or "P-chip") *DC523 floating-point unit (codenamed ''KIWI'' or "F-chip" during development) *DC592 cache controller (codenamed ''COW'' or "C-chip" during development) *DC521 clock chip In addition, two further devices implemented the VAX vector processor option; these comprised the DC555 Vector Register set chip (''VERSE'') and the DC556 Vector Data Path chip (''FAVOR''). Support chips for Rigel-based systems included the RSSC (Rigel System Support Chip) and ''Ghi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rigel (rocket)
Rigel is an Argentinian sounding rocket. The double stage Rigel (first stage Canopus 1, second stage Orion-2) was launched seven times between 1969 and 1973. The Rigel rocket has a maximum altitude of 310 km, a launch mass of 300 kg, a diameter of 0.228 metres and a length of 6.30 metres. References {{Argentina space program Sounding rockets of Argentina Space programme of Argentina Solid-fuel rockets ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MS Rigel
MS ''Rigel'' was a Norwegian vessel built in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1924. The ship was used as a German prisoner of war (POW) transport during World War II, and was sunk by British Fleet Air Arm aircraft off Norway on 27 November 1944 with more than 2,500 dead, mostly POWs. Ship history ''Rigel'' (3,828 tons) was originally a motorship owned by the Bergen Steamship Company. The vessel was named after the Rigel, brightest star in the Orion (constellation), Orion constellation. The ships had been requisitioned by the Occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany, German occupation authorities in Norway in 1940 to transport Allies of World War II, Allied PoWs. According to Norwegian sources ''Rigel'', under the command of Captain Heinrich Rhode with a German crew, sailed under the German flag from Bjerkvik on 21 November 1944 carrying 951 PoWs and 114 guards. At Narvik a further 349 PoWs were loaded plus 95 German deserters and 8 Norwegian prisoners arrested by the German police. The ship ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Rigel (AD-13)
USS ''Rigel'' (AD-13/ARb-1/AR-11) was an destroyer tender named for '' Rigel'', the brightest star in the constellation Orion. Originally built in 1918 as SS ''Edgecombe'' by the Skinner and Eddy Corporation of Seattle, Washington for the United States Shipping Board, she was transferred to the United States Navy by Executive Order on 29 October 1921, delivered 16 November 1921, converted to a destroyer tender, and commissioned as USS ''Rigel'' on 24 February 1922. Service history 1922–1941 Following an extensive fitting out period and shakedown, ''Rigel'' was homeported at San Diego. During the interwar period she remained in southern California. During 1941, she was briefly re-designayed as ''ARb-1'', (a base repair ship). 1941–1942 Redesignated a repair ship, ''AR-11'', on 10 April 1941, she underwent overhaul at Bremerton, Washington then sailed to Hawaii for more extensive repairs and alterations. By mid-July, she was at Pearl Harbor and was still in the yard on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Rigel (AF-58)
USS Rigel (AF-58) was a ''Rigel''-class stores ship acquired by the U.S. Navy. Her task was to carry stores, refrigerated items, and equipment to ships in the fleet, and to remote stations and staging areas. Operational history The second ship to be named ''Rigel'' by the Navy, ''AF-58'' was laid down under Maritime Administration contract 15 March 1954 by the Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp., Pascagoula, Mississippi; launched 15 March 1955; sponsored by Mrs. Austin K. Doyle; and commissioned 2 September 1955. U.S. Navy (1955-1975) The first of a new class of high-speed, large-capacity, fully refrigerated stores issue ships, ''Rigel'' completed shakedown out of Newport, Rhode Island, and her homeport of Norfolk, Virginia. In February 1956, she sailed south for the first time; underwent further training in Cuban and Puerto Rican waters; and into the fall provided logistic support along the mid-Atlantic seaboard and in the Caribbean. In late fall (14 November-9 December), she com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SSM-N-6 Rigel
The SSM-N-6 Rigel was a proposed United States Navy submarine-launched, nuclear-capable ramjet-powered cruise missile. Etymology The Rigel missile was named after Rigel, the brightest star in the constellation Orion. Development In 1946 the US Navy sanctioned development of the Rigel missile as a sub-launched supersonic weapon to attack enemy shores, in parallel with development of the subsonic SSM-N-8 Regulus. The SSM-N-6 was to be launched by means of 4 rocket boosters and a catapult, with two ramjets for the cruise mode of the flight. Several Rigel test articles were built to test the planned ramjet system for the Rigel missile. They had a single ramjet and a single rocket booster. Subsequently, scaled-down Flight Test Vehicles (FTVs) were built with a configuration similar to the full-scale missile, and the first FTV launch occurred in May 1950. Unfortunately, plans to build the SSM-N-6 missiles were cancelled because the failure of FTV flight tests, but also due to the fac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hale A
Hale may refer to: Places Australia *Hale, Northern Territory, a locality *Hale River, in southeastern Northern Territory Canada *Hale, Ontario, in Algoma District United Kingdom * Hale, Cumbria, a hamlet near Beetham, Cumbria *Hale, Greater Manchester, a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, Greater Manchester **Hale (Trafford ward), a former electoral ward in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, Greater Manchester *Hale, Halton, a village in Halton, Cheshire **Hale, an electoral ward in the Borough of Halton, Cheshire *Hale, Hampshire, a village in the New Forest *Hale, Surrey, a village near Farnham *Great Hale, a village in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire *Little Hale, a hamlet in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire *Tottenham Hale, a district in the London Borough of Haringey *The Hale, an area of the London Borough of Barnet **Hale, an electoral ward in the London Borough of Barnet *The Hale, Buckinghamshire, a hamlet near Wendover United Sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Megalyridae
Megalyroidea is a small hymenopteran superfamily of wasps that includes a single family, Megalyridae, with eight extant genera (plus around a dozen extinct ones) and 49 described species. Modern megalyrids are found primarily in the southern hemisphere, though fossils have only been found in the northern hemisphere. The most abundant and species-rich megalyrid fauna is in Australia. Another peak of diversity appears to be in the relict forests of Madagascar, but most of these species are still undescribed. Historically, there has been much confusion about the definition of this family. Species now placed in Megalyridae have in the past been classified into as many as six other families (Braconidae, Evaniidae, Ichneumonidae, and Stephanidae, as well as Dinapsidae and Maimetshidae, with Dinapsidae now considered to be within the Megalyridae. Maimetshidae is no longer considered closely related to Megalyridae, and has been included in Trigonaloidea with Trigonalidae. The oldest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fire Emblem Gaiden
is a tactical role-playing game developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for the Famicom. Released in March 1992, it is the second installment in the ''Fire Emblem'' series and the last to be developed for the Famicom. It builds upon the basic turn-based strategy gameplay of the previous title, while including new elements such as a navigable overworld. Set in the same world as its predecessor, '' Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light'', ''Gaiden'' follows the battles of two opposing armies on the continent of Valentia, which is torn apart by political strife involving the princess Celica and her childhood friend Alm. The development began after the commercial success of ''Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light,'' original designer and writer Shouzou Kaga returned and assumed the role of director, while Yuka Tsujiyoko and Gunpei Yokoi returned respectively as composer and producer. Kaga's main concern was addressing pacing issues from the first game ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
