- of Eris.[citation needed] The
origins of
Orcus may have lain in
Etruscan religion. The so-called "Tomb of
Orcus", an
Etruscan site at Tarquinia, is a misnomer...
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Orcus (minor-planet designation: 90482
Orcus) is a
dwarf planet located in the
Kuiper belt, with one
large moon, Vanth. It has an
estimated diameter of...
- Look up
Orcus in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Orcus was a
Roman god of the underworld.
Orcus may also
refer to:
Orcus (dwarf planet), a trans-Neptunian...
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designation (90482)
Orcus I;
provisional designation S/2005 (90482) 1) is a
natural satellite or moon of the
large trans-Neptunian
dwarf planet Orcus. It was discovered...
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brighter (albedo > ≈0.2) or
denser (> ≈1.4 g/cc)
Orcus and
Quaoar probably were
fully solid:
Orcus and
Charon probably melted and differentiated, considering...
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thought to be
derived from the
Latin word/name
Orcus,
though Tolkien expressed doubt about this. The term
orcus is
glossed as "orc, þyrs, oððe hel-deofol"...
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eventually equated the
Etruscan god Aita and the
Roman gods Dis
Pater and
Orcus with
Hades and
merged all
these figures into Pluto, a
Latinisation of Plouton...
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NACNVAIASI ΘAMCE LE…
Orcus I was
built between 470 and 450 BC (perhaps by a man
named Leive; see below); a
separate hypogeum,
Orcus II, was
built c. 325...
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Orcus Patera Crater in
Orcus Patera (MRO HiRISE) http://www.uahirise.org/results.php?keyword=
Orcus+Patera&order=release_date&submit=Search
Orcus Patera :...
- lies
about 120° from that of Pluto. Thus, the
phase of
Orcus's orbit is
opposite to Pluto's:
Orcus is at
aphelion (most
recently in 2019)
around when Pluto...
