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Word: thebes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Thanks to an extraordinarily successful decade of solar-system exploration, the I.A.U.'s naming committees have had to work overtime. They have approved names for hundreds of topographical features-craters, mountains, plains-on 18 planets and moons, as well as for three newly discovered moons of Jupiter (Adrastea, Thebe and Metis, all intimately connected with the king of gods in Greek mythology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Stellar Idea or Cosmic Scam? | 1/11/1982 | See Source »

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