Pleiades

**//__ Pleiades __//**  1.Latin Name-Pleiades-the 7 sisters -Maia -Electra -Merope -Alcyone -Sterope -Taygeta -Celaeno Parents are Atlas(mother) Pleione (father).  2.Latin Meaning-sailing stars  3. Mythology-Greek-  *One myth had said, Hunter Orion was in love with them and pursued them until the gods took them to safety, transforming them first into doves, and then into stars  *another myth was that the 7 sisters comitted suicide because of the death of their one sister and their father. *Greeks saw seven stars in the cluster, and named them after the Pleiades. 4. The time of year it is visiblein the Northern Hemisphere in the winter and in the summer it is in the Northern Hemisphere.
 * Located in the right shoulder of Tarus.



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This project was very interesting.The fights with the wireless conection to stay conected and searching the reseach was fun.More time would have been nice but the project itself was interesting.Learning information on the constellation Pleiades was fascinating.

At first when i heard all the information we needed I kinda flipped out.But the work was worth it. Finding out the history and myth's behind these constellations was very interesting.

Pic 1: http://www.cyberspaceorbit.com/02.jpg Pic 2: http://www.astronomy.com/asy/image.ashx?img=asy-20001121-00384-orig-lg.jpg&w=250 pic 3: http://www.santangeli.net/calstar/merope2.jpg Info: http://www.crystalinks.com/pleiades.html
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