| Longitude of ascending node:
173.Argument of perihelion:
310.Equatorial surface gravity:
0.Olbers on March 28, 1802.The orbit of Pallas is highly inclined to the plane of the main asteroid belt at 34.Name
The asteroid is named after Pallas Athena, an alternate name for the goddess Athena.In some mythologies Athena killed Pallas, then adopted her friend's name out of mourning.Pallasite meteorites are not connected to the Pallas asteroid, being instead named after the German naturalist Peter Simon Pallas.The chemical element palladium, on the other hand, was named after the asteroid, which had been discovered just before the element.Shortly thereafter he announced his observations of this object, noting that the slow, uniform motion was uncharacteristic of a comet, suggesting it was a different type of object.Olbers after a preliminary orbit was computed by Friedrich Gauss.This object came to be named Ceres, and was the first asteroid to be discovered.Olbers was again attempting to locate Ceres when he noticed another moving object in the vicinity.This was the asteroid Pallas, coincidentally passing near Ceres at the time.Before this point it had been speculated by astronomers that there should be a planet in the gap between Mars and Jupiter.Now, unexpectedly, a second such body had been found.The orbit of Pallas was determined by Gauss, who found the period of 4.However, Pallas had a relatively high orbital inclination to the plane of the ecliptic.In a later paper he reported a group of three asteroids associated with Pallas, which became named the Pallas family after the largest member of the group.Since 1994 more than 10 members of this family have been identified.Pallas has been observed occulting a star several times, including the best observed of all asteroid occultation events on May 29, 1983, when careful occultation timing measurements were taken by 140 observers.These have helped determine an accurate diameter.Pallas from the tiny perturbations induced by it onto the motion of Mars.There have not been any telescopic observations of Pallas that have resolved any features on its disk.Pallas has not yet been visited by a spacecraft, but if the Dawn probe is successful in studying 1 Ceres and 4 Vesta, its mission may be extended to Pallas.Due to the high orbital inclination of Pallas, it is more difficult for a spacecraft to reach than the other large asteroids.Size comparison: the first 10 asteroids profiled against Earth's Moon.Pallas is at second left.Pallas is the third largest object in the asteroid belt, similar to 4 Vesta in volume (to within uncertainty), but somewhat less massive.By comparison, the mass of Pallas is only about 0.Both Vesta and Pallas have assumed the title of second largest asteroid from time to time.Pallas is farther from the Earth with a much lower albedo than Vesta, and consequently appears dimmer.Indeed, the much smaller 7 Iris marginally exceeds Pallas in mean opposition magnitude.Pallas' mean opposition magnitude is +8.Ceres and Vesta, it will require more powerful optical aid to view at small elongations, when its magnitude can drop as low as +10.But during rare perihelic oppositions, Pallas can reach a magnitude of +6.During late February 2014, Pallas will shine at magnitude 6.Pallas was among the "candidate planets" in an early draft of the IAU's 2006 definition of planet, but does not qualify in the final definition because it has not "cleared the neighborhood" around its orbit.There is some consideration that the largest asteroids, such as Pallas, are actually protoplanets.Many of the objects the size of Ceres and Pallas were accreted by the largest bodies, which became the planets.Pallas has unusual dynamical parameters for such a large body.This means that, every Palladian summer and winter, large parts of the surface are in constant sunlight or constant darkness for a time of the order of an Earth year.Consensus has not been reached as to whether Pallas' rotation is prograde or retrograde.Based on spectroscopic observations, the primary component of the Pallas surface material is a silicate that is low in iron and water.There are indications that the surface composition of Pallas is very similar to the Renazzo carbonaceous chondrite (CR) meteorites, which is even lower in hydrous minerals than the CM type.Exploration
An orbit of Pallas cannot be achieved by the Dawn Mission due to the fuel requirements of reaching the asteroid's highly inclined orbit.However, a flyby mission may be theoretically possible whenever Pallas is crossing an orbital node, as this briefly places the asteroid in the plane of the ecliptic."Triaxial ellipsoid dimensions and rotational pole of 2 Pallas from two stellar occultations"."The size and shape of (2) Pallas from the 1983 occultation of 1 Vulpeculae"."Estimations of masses of the largest asteroids and the main asteroid belt from ranging to planets, Mars orbiters and landers"."New determination of the mass of Pallas".NASA Planetary Data System.Field Guide to the Stars and Planets, 2nd edition, Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, p.NASA Planetary Data System.Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.Los Alamos National Laboratory."Kiyotsugu Hirayama and His Families of Asteroids (invited)".Proceedings of the International Conference, Sagamihara, Japan: Astronomical Society of the Pacific.Description of the System of Asteroids."Ceres, Vesta, and Pallas: Protoplanets, Not Asteroids".Transactions of the American Geophysical Union 87 (10): 105."Radar Observations of Asteroids 1 Ceres, 2 Pallas, and 4 Vesta"."Shapes and rotational properties of thirty asteroids from photometric data"."The 3 Micron Spectrum of Asteroid 2 Pallas.".Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 14: 719."Earliest Meteoritse Provide New Piece in Planetary Formation Puzzle."Hubble Images of Asteroids Help Astronomers Prepare for Spacecraft Visit.External links
2 Pallas.Ceres, Pallas Vesta and Hygeia.Horizons can be used to obtain a current ephemeris.For other objects and regions, see Asteroid groups and families, Binary asteroids, Asteroid moons, meteoroids and the Solar System.See Copyrights for details.The Ultimate Review of 2007.Revised, updated, and still unrivaled.The world's premier software reference source.German astronomer and physician Wilhelm Olbers on March 28, 1802, following the discovery of Ceres the year before.It is named after Pallas Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom.Pallas's orbital inclination of 34.Pallas , or any Britannica premium article for free, even those readers without a premium membership.Just copy the HTML code fragment provided below to create the link and then paste it within your web content.For more details about this feature, visit our Webmaster and Blogger Tools page."Returned " + google_ads.For text ads, append each ad to the string.More from Britannica on "Pallas"...Pallassecond largest asteroid in the asteroid belt and the second such object to be discovered, by the German astronomer and physician Wilhelm Olbers on March 28, 1802, following the discovery of Ceres the year before.It is named after Pallas Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom.Felidae) native to deserts and rocky, mountainous regions from Tibet to Siberia.It was named for the naturalist Peter Simon Pallas.Pallas, Peter SimonGerman naturalist who advanced a theory of mountain formation and, by the age of 15, had outlined new classifications of certain animal groups.The site of the town, at Rome, became known as the Palatine Hill, for his son Pallas and daughter Pallantia.Evander was the son of the goddess Carmentis (or Carmenta) and the god Hermes.Student Encyclopedia Britannica articles, specially written for elementary and high school studentsPallas cat(or manul, or steppe cat), wild cat of Asia; lives in rocky areas from e.Pallas Athena, or simply Pallas.There are many smaller bodies that circle the sun in orbits that lie, for the most part, in a belt between Mars and Jupiter.These are the asteroids, sometimes called minor planets.The asteroids Pallas and Vesta have diameters greater than 300 miles (485 ...INTERIOR DESIGN BEST OF YEAR AWARD!Our knowledge of the ancient art of textile manufacturing fuses beautifully with today's modern techniques and fibers, inspiring Pallas Textiles to create upholsteries, panel fabrics, wallcoverings, cubicles and draperies that are timeless yet continually evolving in color, pattern and texture.Thoughtfully designed, elegantly woven...You may give each page an identifying name, server, and channel on
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* section, delete the tag (from ...PALLAS is, after MARILLION, and along with IQ and PENDRAGON, one of the most important acts of the Eighties Progressive rebirth.MARILLION but with more edge.Their music is centered on melodic hooks, loud sound and great voice."The Sentinel" brings a tint of pop in a still elaborate progressive spectrum.Scottish prog band PALLAS definitely have one of the longest gaps between albums on record.Pallas (17 replies)Extensive Pallas Song Poll (10 replies)Best Pallas studio album...In defence of Pallas (57 replies)Preferred Pallas era (the poll for Jim Garten!!!The Blinding Darkness (14 replies)Martin Orford(IQ) vs.Studio Album, 1984)
Avg: 3.According to a British friend of mine who was present for the early 80's prog renaissance at the Marque in London, Pallas was
the band everyone felt would be the biggest success.Marillion was considered second to them, but also a contender for
success (in fact, in my friends clique.....Marque crowd was comprised of a number of cliques..........Eddy Offord production, gatefold album sleeve with a great fantasy art work.And worse, their tour de force, the Atlantis suite, had been butchered by the record company.The bands momentum was lost,
seemingly forever.Pallas in the late 90's, and only first listened to their music around 2004 or so, in preparation for their
Nearfest 2005 performance.What I heard was a fairly bland neo prog, though with a bit more of a bite than typical neo
bands.For myself, the first 3 tracks are somewhat throwaway, poppier type numbers.Not terrible, but short and very much like
early 80's MTV fodder, if a bit more interesting that most of what was popular on that channel back then.This is 80's prog at it's finest I think, neo done with
suitable amounts of rock, new wave, and symphonic grandeur.In other works, it's okay.When I pull this out to listen to it,
it is quite enjoyable, at least the the last 7 tracks anyway.But I don't pull it out very often.If you want a complete picture of the second wave of prog, and the gestation of neo prog, this album is really essential.The album shows that Pallas were
probably a perfect band for their time, but outside of it they don't hold up so well (though their more recent albums are
pretty decent neo prog of the modern variety).Pallas arrived as one of the bands amongst the early eighties British Neo Prog movement.Yes Producer Eddie Offord and the sound overall is pretty good.The cd version has added a few tracks and the running order has been changed too.Eyes in the Night (Arrive Alive) and Cut and Run and both display the more commercial side of the band.Ark of Infinity and Atlantis are both over seven minutes.Ark of Infinity closes the cd version and not such a good way to end in my opinion.Pallas, if not up to the quality of their predecessors and in the eighties helped give us hope that Progressive Rock still had a life.Pallas was one of the rare bands active in the (early) eighties.Pendragon, Marillion and IQ.Marillion in the Fish days and Pendragon (The Jewel).So I wondered what Pallas was like.Pallas label, but what a disappointment.Studio Album, 1998)
Avg: 3.Pallas made in this album is tremendous and worthy of congratulations, but at times, the band
seems indistinct from other modern Neo bands, especially Arena and Pendragon.In fact, the only time Beat the Drum really falters is on indistinct songs slightly past the half point.Bruce Dickenson, but because his voice is utterly
commanding.This applies to all Pallas albums after Beat the Drum as well, in case you
decide to start with Pallas at a later album.Every aspect of this record would be improved upon with the two
subsequent records.Nevertheless, I cannot turn away from Beat the Drum.Pallas songs, and I
would not want to go back to a time when I did not know them.So, please give this album a try if you are interested in Neo
Prog in the least (and try not to be put off by the term).If you know and like any other Pallas material, you must try this
album.You owe it to yourself to know
Pallas for more than their 80s material.Prog Archives, All rights reserved.Pallas
(Greek mythology) Several people in Greek mythology:
An epithet for Athena; later Pallas Athena.The father of Pallas Athena.Content is available under GNU Free Documentation License.PALLAS was the Titan god (perhaps) of warcraft and the Greek campaign season of late spring and early summer.EURYBIA (Hesiod Theogony 375, Apollodorus 1.He was married to Styx, by whom he became the father of Zelus, Cratos, Bia, and Nice.According to some traditions, the father of Athena, who slew him as he was on the point of violating her.Source: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.FAMILY OF PALLAS
Hesiod, Theogony 375 ff (trans.And Eurybia (Wide Power), bright goddess, was joined in love to Krios (Ram) and bare great Astraios (Starry), and Pallas (Warrior), and Perses (Destroyer).Also she brought forth Kratos (Strength) and Bia (Force), wonderful children.Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.To Kreios and Eurybia, the daughter of Pontos, were born Astraios, Pallas, and Perses .Nike, Kratos, Zelos, and Bia were born to Pallas and Styx.Pellenians, from Pallas, who was, they say, one of the Titanes.Enceladus, Coeus, elentes, mophius, Astraeus, Pelorus, Pallas, Emphytus, Rhoecus, ienios, Agrius, alemone, Ephialtes, Eurytus, effracordon, Theomises, Theodamas, Otus, Typhon, Polybotes, meephriarus, abesus, colophonus, Iapetus.Boyle) (Roman poetry C1st B.ATHENA BATTLES THE TITAN PALLAS
The War of the Giants and War of the Titanes were often thought to be identical.Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.Pallas and used it to protect her own body during the battle.Suda On Line) (Byzantine Greek lexicon C10th A.Pallas : A great virgin.It is an epithet of Athena; from brandishing (pallein) the spear, or from having killed Pallas, one of the Gigantes.He was appropriately the father of four warlike gods : Nike (Victory), Kratos (Power), Bia (Force), and Zelos (Rivalry).Aries (Krios in Greek) and Perseus.Pallas' connection with the stars is further emphasized when he is described as the father of Selene the Moon.Greek Travelogue C2nd A.Latin Mythography C2nd A.Pallas
by Micha F.Pallas is the son of Crius and Eurybia and husband of Styx.Pallas is the father of Zelus, Nike, Cratos and Bia.Pallas is also an appellation of the goddess Athena (Pallas Athena) who, according to some accounts was the daughter of Pallas.In this version Pallas attempted to rape her and she killed him.From his skin she made the Aegis.Article "Pallas" created on 03 March 1997; last modified on 27 December 1998 (Revision 2)."See a map of synonyms of Pallas in the Visual Thesaurus." |
