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Atira asteroid

noun

Etymology

Named after the first asteroid discovered in this class, 163693 Atira, named after the Pawnee goddess of the Earth, Atira, from Pawnee Atira, from Pawnee atira (“voc. 'Mother', 'our mother'”).

  1. derived from atira — “voc. 'Mother', 'our mother'”
  2. derived from Atira

Definitions

  1. An asteroid whose orbit lies completely within the orbit of the Earth, and crosses the…

    An asteroid whose orbit lies completely within the orbit of the Earth, and crosses the orbit of Venus.

The neighborhood

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